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Keep advice a simple business: BTFG

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
Trust and understanding the simplicity of the advice business is the key to surviving FOFA, according to Mark Spiers, general manager of advice, BT Financial Group. Adviser are anxious around the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) but Spiers said despite ...

Future Fund chair back for a year, two new board members

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
Future Fund chairman David Murray has signed on for a further 12 months at the sovereign wealth fund amid controversy over an alleged board split, it was announced yesterday. Treasurer Wayne Swan re-appointed Murray for a further year, saying in a press ...

Aussie funds fail transparency test

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
Australia's managed funds are among the world's worst in terms of disclosure, a report has found, with financial advisers caught between client commitments and secretive funds. Managed funds in Australia and New Zealand do not have to publish portfolio ...

Advant Online signs AXA

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
AXA advisers have a new tool to use for their marketing needs after their dealer group struck a deal with Advant Online. To boost support for its advisers, AXA joined the online web portal, allowing advisers to find and access relevant fee-for-service ...

Super fund signals future role in govt policy

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
AustralianSuper marks another turning point in superannuation history when it created a new 'head of policy' role, yet another sign that the country's largest super fund is taking on a leadership role in an industry set to manage trillions of dollars ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
Blink and you would have missed it. Financial markets are back in forward gear once more. They have been over the past three trading days inspite of the severe calamities and geo-political tensions that came their way not even a full three months into ...

Mercer invests in consulting business

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
Mercer has brought in six new faces to its investment consulting business in Australia and New Zealand, including an environmental, social and governance specialist. Environmental expert Dr Richard Fuller joins Mercer from HESTA super fund where he ...

Future Fund climbs sovereign league tables

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
Australia's Future Fund is now the 13th largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, moving up from 15th place according to new figures from alternative investment research firm Preqin. The report compares the world's sovereign wealth funds in US dollar ...

Infra asset demand buoy CFS GAM and RARE

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
Global infrastructure funds managed by Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) and RARE Infrastructure have increased their teams on the back of fresh mandate wins. Colonial First State Global Asset Management's global listed infrastructure ...

Fund, Insurers unafraid of Japan quake cost

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
A superannuation fund which invested $300 million in the catastrophe bond sector last year has said it does not expect any direct losses from the Japan earthquake tragedy. Paul Gregory, head of communications for New Zealand Superannuation Fund, said ...