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JP Morgan Private Equity Fund Services launches in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
JPMorgan Private Equity Fund Services (PEFS) will be launching in Australia to provide custody and administrative support to super funds and investment managers operating in the private equity investment space. Albert J Foreman, senior vice president ...

Unit pricing not always best: Buttler Walker

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
Despite the push to make unit pricing the standard for how super funds report investment returns, interest rate based approaches can be just as robust, argue actuaries Buttler Walker. In a just released comment paper, Buttler Walker said, "It is important ...

Build websites around users not IT teams

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
Financial services firms investing in new websites, software or other digital services risk lost customers and cost blow-outs if they don't test the new services with actual users. Theresa Cunnington, senior usability consultant at iFocus, said, "Technology ...

Smart 401(k) plan design boosts their take-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
Research from the US-based Investment Company Institute (ICI) reveals smart 401(k)s plan design is a big factor in their take up. "Research generally indicates that offering employer matching contributions or a loan provision increases participation. ...

High conviction means making tough decisions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
Just because you are a high conviction investment manager doesn't mean staying with stocks no matter what, instead it means making tough decisions with conviction. Speaking at the netwealth adviser conference last week, Don Williams, executive director ...

Suncorp-Promina merger relies on IT integration

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... not lack of cost savings but a failure to integrate - the synergies can take a while to materialise," warned Rowsell-Jones. Alex Dunnin with

Absolute returns not high risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
Super funds increasing their allocations to hedge funds and absolute strategies are not increasing their risk weightings because such strategies are really aimed at adding greater diversification. Scott MacDonald, managing director of VanMac Global ...

Thomson Financial launches peHub private equity blogsite

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
Thomson Financial, responding to the surge in private equity investment activity, has launched Private Equity Hub, an interactive forum for the private equity venture capitalists, buy-outs professionals and service providers. Thomson Financial said ...

Finsia wins fin services education excellence award

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
Finsia's Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment has been awarded the Excellence in Education for Financial Services - Higher Education Category Award from the Financial Services Education Agency Australia (FSEAA). The FSEAA Quality Education ...

Reverse mortgages better than starvation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
Reverse mortgage products may not be the ideal product but they are better than starvation, and if they can help someone finally fix that bathroom the quality of life benefits can be huge. "The problem is they can be seen as admission of abject failure ...