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Standard Life Inv GARS manager in shock exit

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... investing and fixed income at the firm, Munro was instrumental in developing the strategy behind one of the UK market's fastest selling investments of recent years. Since its launch in 2006 and under the stewardship of Munro, the GARS fund has swelled ...

One in five ASX200 companies ignoring social media

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... materials, are yet to embrace social media tools as critical to their business," Marley continued. YouTube emerged as the fastest growing social media platform, while Twitter is the most versatile channel for commercial purposes, with companies using ...

Life insurance risk sees downfall in sales

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... providers by market share and TAL, with a 13.4% annual growth and 13.5% of market share, has taken its place. BT has been the fastest-growing insurance business and its annual growth was 20.7% during the last year. However, BT is the eight business in ...

Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... biggest economy - reported that exports dropped by 2.4% in May following a 1.4% fall in the previous month. This is the fastest pace of decline since 2009 and would surely detract from growth. Bad news too because it highlights still weak demand in its ...

Retail managed funds' fortune set to slide

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... & Researchers. Overall retail managed funds grew by $24 billion in the first quarter of 2013, with AMP growing at the fastest rate, followed by fellow giant Colonial First State. Ending the quarter with $108.14 billion in funds under management and a ...

FUM breaks through pre-GFC barrier

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... restructuring of retail wealth management in Australia," noted Rainmaker in its report. Rainmaker's report also revealed the five fastest growing asset classes over the 12 months to end March 2013 were international equities, infrastructure, hedge funds ...

LinkedIn the fastest-growing tech company... again

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
LinkedIn was by far the fastest-growing tech company over the past 12 months, according to Forbes' list, America's Fastest Growing Tech Companies 2013 With a three-year average sales growth of 102%, LinkedIn beat second-place Facebook (87 %), and third-place ...

RBA decisions decisions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... certainly bolsters this argument. Retail sales rose by a less than expected 0.2% in April; consumer confidence fell at its fastest rate in 17 months in May; the AiG Performance of Manufacturing Index contracted for 23rd straight month in May; ANZ job ...

Industry funds lead super growth in March quarter

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... only $17 billion. APRA's report shows that total funds under management (FUM) of industry superannuation funds were the fastest growing and increased by 5.7% ($16.7 billion) to $311.4 billion during the last quarter. Corporate funds grew by 4.3% ($2.5 ...

A lesson against austerity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... household spending soared by 5.2% in the year to March - much, much more than expectations for a 1.8% increase and the fastest since February 2004. Japan's unemployment dropped to a four-year low of 4.1% in March - again better than the 4.3% expected. ...