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Less clients, larger loan sizes

... while the numbers are down, loan sizes are up. The findings came from the latest Colonial Geared Investments/Investment Trends Margin Lending: Broker Report, which surveyed more than 360 brokers in December 2007. The headline number is that a majority ...

IRESS software gets thumbs up

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... satisfaction amongst planners for fully featured planning software, a new report shows. According to the latest Investment Trends Planner Technology report, XPLAN - a web-deployed platform for planners - also topped the list for ease of use, constructing ...

SMSFs lead charge

... supplement their current [retail] fund or their existing funds," she said. Analysts and research groups including Investment Trends have long predicted that SMSFs could soon supplant the retail fund segment as the default choice of many Australians. ...

Advisers lead margin lending push

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
... this makes life easy for advisers to keep track of everything," he said. Mark Johnston, head of research house Investment Trends, agreed that planners led the way, saying, "The real growth engine for margin lending has actually been the planner channel. ...

Fees drive super switchers

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
... The survey, titled 'Super Decisions: Communicating with Customers and Effective Disclosure', and conducted by Investment Trends, stated while only seven per cent of investors switched funds between October 2005 and October 2006, the largest percentage ...

DIY investors all cashed up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
... correction. A joint study of more than 2,100 SMSFs back in May by direct banking group RaboPlus and researcher Investment Trends has found startling evidence that DIY investors are more financially savvy than widely thought. According to the study, some ...

Super changes push SMSFs through planner doors

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
... managed super fund (SMSF) trustees now use planners, up from a third in December 2005, according the latest AMP/Investment Trends Self Managed Super Funds: Investor and Planner report. Investment Trends principal Mark Johnston said, "You've got this ...

Never mind the length, look at the readability

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
... PDS readability, 60 per cent of super fund members do read their PDS's, according to new research conducted by Investment Trends for the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA). In the research, investors who had recently switched funds ...

CFD traders to reach 50,000

... 27,000 intending to trade them over the next 12 months, according to a new study. Leading finance research firm Investment Trends has released its 2007 Contracts For Difference (CFD) Report, an online survey of Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) investors ...

Hedge and non-hedge collide

... director of Decision Horizons, concurred and said that "unbundling of investment processes" is one of the main investment trends driving the industry. Rogers said he wouldn't call it 'dynamic allocation' but from a financial planning perspective, asset ...