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Market plunge drives record margin calls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Margin lenders CommSec and St George Bank made record numbers of margin calls on Monday night and after yesterday's All Ordinaries 409 point drubbing, with another record in the making last night. CommSec managing director Matt Comyn, speaking late ...

Aviva offers auto re-weighting

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Aviva has added an automatic re-weighting feature in its Navigator platform that allows advisers to give their clients a more tax effective portfolio. The feature allows advisers to re-weight investment funds in a client's portfolio back to its target ...

Industry funds biggest losers from switching

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
Industry super funds reaped the least switching gains at the end of last year, as they reported for the first time a negative net share of superannuation switching behaviour, a new survey by Roy Morgan shows. During the six months leading up to September ...

Russell adds Plato

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
Plato Investment Group's 130/30 Australian Share Fund has been granted a 15 per cent weighting on Russell Investment Group Australian Opportunities Fund. The Australian Shares 130/30 Fund endeavors to achieve five per cent gross out performance each ...

City Pacific to buy MFS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
Financial services provider, City Pacific has placed a $1.33 billion offer for funds management and advisory provider, MFS Limited. The offer includes the issue of 225 million new shares to MFS shareholders, assuming each share City Pacific receives ...

BankWest calls on UK planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
BankWest is set to launch a financial planning service and will sidestep the planner shortage in Australia by scoping the talent pool of its UK parent HBOS. BankWest aims to have a financial adviser in all its branches with a target of recruiting 100 ...

Better beta through fundamental indexing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
Institutional investors can diversify their beta exposure and gain higher returns along the way through fundamental indexing, said Jason Hsu, a director at Research Affiliates, at the IMCA Conference last week. Hsu said that one of the ironies in investors ...

BRICs to surge as G7 slows

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
While developing countries like China and India are set for continued strong economic growth, developed countries should brace for a slowdown, albeit a moderate one, said the OECD. According to the OCED, their latest composite leading indicators (CLIs) ...

Asia marching on faster than expected

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
Growing intra-region trade within emerging markets is pushing Asia to the centre of world financial affairs faster than we realise. "Fifty per cent of all world trade now has an Asian leg," said Craig Weeks, senior vice president of global trade services ...

SWIFT overhauls proxy voting

Financial messaging specialist SWIFT pushes corporate governance up a notch through an automated messaging system that creates a transparent 'audit trail' of proxy votes cast by fund managers and pension funds. The new system, called SWIFTNet Proxy ...