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Vanguard saves $5m in trading costs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
True to the adage 'timing is everything', index manager Vanguard saved investors over $5 million in reduced transactions costs this year through 'crossing savings'. A 'crossing' or a 'special spread' saving occurs when Vanguard fund uses the cash invested ...

Sun Life appoints Goodall

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
Sun Life Financial Asia appointed Mike Goodall as vice president of regional business development and bancassurance. Goodall was previously ANZ financial planning general manager and more recently, managing director at financial services firm, Inpro ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market has received a strong, positive lead from Wall Street this morning, although share price index futures contracts were trading down in Sydney. At 0747 AEST, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index futures ...

Schroder's fund gets Lonsec nod

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
The Schroder Australian Smaller Companies Fund has received a "Recommended" rating from Lonsec. Lonsec attributed the rating to the Schroder fund in a fund review released this week. The Schroder Australian Smaller Companies Fund (the Fund) is a new ...

This Week's Movers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
This Week's Market Movers (8 - 12 Sep 2008) The financial market volatility of the previous months spilled over into September. Weakening economic growth, falling commodity prices and political uncertainty in the US -- government is on hold until the ...

Three steadies and a cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
This Week's Market Movers (1 - 5 Sep 2008) Four of the world's major central banks will hold monetary policy meetings this week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), The Bank of Canada (BoC), the Bank of England (BoE) and the European Central Bank (ECB) ...

CARE Super closes cap guaranteed option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
CARE Super is suspending its capital guaranteed option after the AMP Capital Guaranteed Fund closed its doors to new investments. The capital guaranteed option in both the CARE industry and pension funds were shut last Friday. According to a statement ...

Plan B bears market pain

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
Boutique wealth manager Plan B's full year results were not as stellar as the numbers in the half year although the company still managed to meet its earnings target and dish out higher-than-planned dividends for shareholders. Six months ago, Plan B ...

Caledonia updates with HiPortfolio

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
Australian boutique investment manager, Caledonia Investments is updating its DST International (DSTi) accounting service to the latest version, HiPortfolio. The latest version of the accounting software includes scalable end to end capabilities and ...

Lower, higher, steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
The latest reading from the Westpac/Melbourne Institute leading index points to a slowdown in the Australian economy in the coming months, confirming the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) comments in the minutes of its 5 August Board meeting. The annual ...