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AFA soft skills forum attracts 600

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
The soft skills traveling forum conducted by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) last month attracted more then 600 advisers and delegates throughout Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobart, Brisbane and Melbourne who heard how they can develop their ...

Hip to be outside the square

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
Scale gives large super funds the resources and the likelihood to outperform, but that doesn't mean small funds that are well run can't compete with the mega fund powerhouses. While research has shown that large funds are more likely to out-perform ...

The miseducation on research

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
Fallout from recent high profile collapses among property-based investment groups such as Westpoint, Fincorp, ACR and Bridgecorp, and now with Basis Capital, highlights that investors sometimes don't quite understand the role research plays in helping ...

Russell bolsters adviser services team

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
Russell has expanded their retail investor services team with four appointments. Peter Burnett, an internal appointment, will take on the role of national sales development manager. He was formerly Russell's Victoria/Tasmania state manager. Mehernavaz ...

US investors receive $312m from Fair Fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
Another week, another compensation resolution for US investors. This time the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is about to distribute $312 million through the Fair Fund created as part of the settlements with Qwest Communications International ...

Advisers post record growth

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
There are 1,500 more advisers operating in Australia than this time last year, the biggest jump in nearly four years, according to research from Rainmaker. This translates to there being nearly 18,000 advisers, up 9 per cent in the last 12 months. Rainmaker ...

ALP wants industry funds on awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has attracted support from the financial services industry with their calls to cut foreign withholding tax, but their call to make industry funds the automatic default super choice for industrial awards is less likely ...

QWL sets sights on Eastern Europe

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
QWL has launched a fund targeting high growth in Eastern Europe, hoping to take advantage of the region's improving integration within the European Union. The QWL Euro # III Fund is being seeded with a $10 million injection and will invest into listed ...

UK alternative weightings quadruple

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
UK pension funds now have record low weightings to domestic equities and record high weightings to international equities while weightings to alternative assets have quadrupled in four years, according to a survey by Pension Funds Online, the UK directory ...

Income does not drive wealth: ABS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2007
New figures just released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) confirm that people with the highest incomes are not the ones with the most wealth. According to the latest ABS survey of household income and its distribution, while Darwin households ...