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Don Russell joins State Super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... adviser and BNY Mellon strategist, Don Russell, chairperson on its board. Russell replaces Michael Cole after he was directed to review the financial exposures of local councils. Previously, Russell worked at US wealth management and research firm, Sanford ...

CFDs to act as shield: CMC

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
Contract for difference (CFD) provider CMC Markets ups its stake in the financial planning industry and self directed self-managed super funds (SMSF) investors with the launch of its Shield Account product. According to Nic Blakemore, head of distribution ...

The real choice battlefront: direct versus intermediated

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2007
... choice index confirms that funds without either very strong distribution networks or powerful brands able to attract self-directed investors will struggle to gain momentum under super choice. The report is based on InvestmentLink's analysis of millions ...

ASIC review to streamline IDPS rules

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is undertaking its first ever review of the rules around licensing for Investor Directed Portfolio Services (IDPS) which it hopes will simplify some of their operating rules and reduce barriers to entry for ...

QSuper champions fin literacy

... Peterman has been involved in educational seminars but her biggest project this year is the launch of a multi-media campaign directed at the 160,000 members within QSuper that fall in the Gen X and Gen Y category. Together with the group's annual report ...

Maximise returns, don't follow ideology: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
... be required to invest in infrastructure or social capital, Costello said the Government has no intention of imposing directed investment requirements. "I don't think it is up to the Government to come along and tell the trustees where the money ought ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... that the function nurtures a highly "skilled and creative workforce" and that the R&D Tax Concession would be better directed towards small firms and that there needs to be a changing of the thresholds for tax offsets, an amendment of the base for the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2007
... been described as full capacity industries, namely the steel, cement and aluminum sectors. Foreign investment is being directed towards high-tech industries such as telecom equipment, computer production and environmentally efficient industries. The ...

K2 targets retail investors

... as RE was to reduce the minimum investment size for their funds from $50,000 to $20,000. "We have traditionally been directed toward wholesale investors and will maintain a strong focus there, but see significant potential in the retail market," said ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
... million advertising campaign has begun to attract investors to the sale. As the local market gets flooded with money directed from compulsory superannuation legislation, alternative investments are being sourced from overseas on an increasingly large ...