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Investors ignoring credit

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... Market volatility is here to stay, and investors should ensure that their portfolios are suitably diversified across a variety of asset classes, said Tom Stevenson, investment director at Fidelity Worldwide Investment. "Now the risk is the real one that ...

AIST working to improve board gender imbalance

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... representation of females on the boards of not-for-profit funds stands at around 21%. "The workshop participants hailed from a variety of backgrounds including unions and employer bodies which nominate trustee directors, academia and other businesses," ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... from 1.2% in the December quarter. It's iffy, because the drop in productivity could be interpreted as one for the horned variety or for the furry one. The positive - the drop in productivity means that businesses need to increase hiring to increase ...

netwealth unbundles super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... for advisers and also direct to members," said Heine. netwealth is currently used by approximately 700 advisers from a variety of dealer groups across the country.

Tyndall AM appoints new managing director

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... management business, focusing on institutional and retail distribution of offshore fund products. After 13 years in a variety of roles covering sales, trading and asset management at Merrill Lynch, he co-founded Maple Financial Group, the genesis of ...

ETP growth attracts IOSCO concerns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... issue a discussion paper on whether and how the sector should be regulated. Exchange Traded Products (ETP) include a wide variety of different investment products such as Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) that are organised as collective investment schemes ...

MLC shakes up portfolio allocations

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... good for stock pickers, the correlations between stocks and sectors are on the rise." Sumner said this correlation means variety can be limited and therefore a passive allocation to Australian shares strategies is a wise move. However, Sumner said that ...

Managed funds have a place in SMSFs: Select

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... coming from the fund managers is that despite the higher costs, the vehicles provide an easy option for exposure to a variety of derivatives, allowing hedging and capitalisation on market inefficiencies and alpha. "Passive management actually puts more ...

Market provides opportunities for absolute return investment

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... for consistent, positive returns, providing investment managers with more scope to diversify and deliver returns from a variety of strategies. Cash, or inflation, is normally the benchmark with the target return set above this. This means the manager ...

Asia vital for Aus business: Harcourt

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... "Australia has not been unique in this slowing of productivity growth, it has happened in many Western countries for a variety of reasons." And according to Harcourt, increased productivity "doesn't have to be unpleasant". "A lot of things like advancing ...