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Europeans flock to Asian stocks

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... to invest now." Urquhart outlined a number of opportunities available in Asia, noting that nearly a quarter of the world's top 2000 companies are located in Asia ex-Japan and yet it only accounts for less than 7 per cent of the MSCI World Index. Despite ...

Super SA, GESB and Telstra Super join top 300

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
Fifteen of the world's top 300 pension and sovereign wealth funds are domiciled in Australia, according to a new report. That represents an increase of three on last year, with Super SA, GESB, and Telstra Super joining the global elite. The Future Fund ...

Realindex tops $2bn in FUM

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
Realindex, a Colonial First State subsidiary, announced it has surpassed $2 billion in funds under management, barely two years after launching. Andrew Francis, the company's chief executive, told Financial Standard that a recent Australian equities ...

AIA ranks as best insurance brand

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... American International Assurance (AIA) has beaten Prudential, Life Insurance corporation of India and Ping An Insurance to be the top insurance brand in Asia. According to a survey by TNS and Media, AIA has won the top spot in financial services (insurance ...

SMSF advisers back FOFA call to upskill

SPAA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
More than 90 per cent of SMSF advisers support raising competency levels through the proposed Future of Financial Advice Reforms - while 6 out of 10 advisers agree SMSF auditors should be registered with ASIC, new research shows. According to the 2010 ...

More million dollar members for MDRT

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... and grow with MDRT's ideas and experience, especially in the tough times." Founded in 1927, members of MDRT represent the top 6 per cent of financial service professionals globally that have met the criteria set out by MDRT, which includes metrics measuring ...

Fiduciary duty goes beyond APLs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... is within a planning group's approved products list (APL) doesn't mean they have fulfilled their fiduciary duty - prompting top researchers to talk about the role of research behind APLs. Karla Borland, vice president, funds analyst at Credit Suisse ...

Legal risks pose social media stumbling blocks

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... media is and what it can do for them. She said that endgame communications did their own research and found only some of the top ten fund managers and industry superannuation funds had social media presence, and they are 'limited'. "There is little question ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... strategist, Michael Heffernan, said from Melbourne. "Across the board we are doing very well. "There are no companies in the top 20 that are not green." Markets took heart from comments by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke of the central bank ...

Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
Glum has entered the building. Remember him? The teenie weenie Lilliputian in Gulliver's Travels who when faced with a predicament - any predicament - exclaims, "We'll never make it! We're doomed!" So it is with Wall Street and its view of the US economy ...