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Van Eyk most popular ratings agency: Rainmaker

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... released by Rainmaker. Rainmaker's latest Advantage report profiling the platform and advice sector noted that despite these top three reaching two-thirds of planners, there are nonetheless 32 research ratings firms operating in the market. "But despite ...

Top platforms give Basis investors helping hand

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
Seven of the industry's leading wealth management providers have teamed up to establish a good will fund for embattled Basis Capital investors. The IFSA Basis Capital Working Group, made up of Asgard, BT Financial Group, Synergy Capital Management ...

Future Fund still on hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... monitoring these functions and it impacts the current state, in-flight activity and optimal services model. Whoever makes it to the top of the Future Fund team will be closely watched by fund managers, super funds and financial planners alike as the ...

Bad markets to test boutiques

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... "Choice does matter, you can't just pick any boutique and hope to get it right. There's a pretty big gap in performance [between top and bottom performing firms]," he said. In addition, he said it was important to invest in boutique managers early, as ...

NAB names new chief

WWW.THESHEET.COM, ASX STATEMENT  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... Zealand, as its new group chief executive starting next year, ending media speculation on who would replace John Stewart for the top job. Stewart's departure this year is in line with the loose timetable set by him and the board following his elevation ...

CONNECT targets retirees

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... retirement pension option, is targeted at members due to retire. The option allows members to work fewer hours and use super to top up their income, or work the same hours and use tax savings to boost their super via salary sacrifice strategies. Alternatively ...

UBS faces multi-billion lawsuit

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... paper as a result of UBS's fraudulent misrepresentations and illegal conduct. The investigation also noted that the bank's top executives sold-off $21.9 million in personal holdings of auction rate securities when the securities market started to collapse. ...

AXA super tops league tables

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
Amid the worst super fund returns on record, AXA Australia has broken through the field as the surprise top performer with a stunning positive 4 per cent from its Tailored Super and Simple Super employer funds, almost 11 per cent ahead of the market ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... Seng Index reversed 53.5 points to 22,687.21. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket made modest gains, helped by a rise in top stock Telecom. The benchmark NZSX-50 index added 2.41 points to 3256.57

APRA to review super fund stats

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... unfortunate to produce league tables that people would use to then make wrong choices." Jones said that instead of doing a top 100 ranking, they might categorise super funds based on quartile or decile performance so the public can look at which funds ...