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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
... from the high it reached in 2000. S&P 500 companies are forecast to deliver earnings growth of about 14 per cent in the third quarter of this year following about three years of such double digit profit growth. In the next two years the S&P 500 is expected ...

Fidelity Aust Equities Fund upgraded on third birthday

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
Fidelity's Australian Equities Fund has had its rating upgraded by Morningstar after growing its local investment team and laying down a track record for its first three years. Morningstar has moved the fund to a highly recommended rating, up from investment ...

Broker mortgage market share keeps rising

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
... financial services consulting director at Fujitsu Consulting, Martin North, said, "We believe this growing dependence on third party mortgage brokers represents a major point of strategic weakness for the banks. "In the US and the UK, brokers originate ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
... and females aged 65 were placed equally in terms of their international rank of life expectancy thereafter, a fortunate third. Japan ranks highest on these measures. The US economy was pleasantly surprised by new home sales which were up by 4.1 per cent ...

Super assets surge to $914 billion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
... funds received a staggering $21.4 billion in new contributions. These contributions were two-thirds from employers and one-third from members. Other contributions, however, being spouse contributions and the government co-contribution scheme, totalled ...

Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

... trillion in assets under management. Ranked second was Barclays Global Investors with over US$1.51 trillion and a close third was Allianz Group with US$1.49 trillion. Over the past five years Allianz enjoyed the biggest growth in assets under management ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
... extended losses on concern about their profit outlook. The Nikkei lost 76.36 points to 15,557.45, extending its losses into a third session. HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks ended down 1.36 per cent in their biggest one-day percentage loss in more than a ...

BT Wrap wins myAdviser tender

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
BT has won a market-wide tendering process to secure the business of the myAdviser group through a private label arrangement for its BT Wrap platform. The myAdviser group is made up of 45 advisers with $850 million in funds under advice. Almost $650 ...

Star ratings on staff? Only in China

The third largest bank in China, the Bank of China (BOC), has introduced the penultimate in 'customer satisfaction' surveys, asking customers to rate individual banking employees on the spot with a one-star to five-star rating based on service level. ...

Planners find Avenue in succession

... stake of its business to one of its staff. Stephen Barratt, who joined Avenue as a financial planner in 2004, has bought a third share of Avenue's North Parramatta branch as part of the group's internal succession planning strategy. "When we appointed ...