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Zenith names top global managers

BT Financial, Platinum, Morgan Stanley and PM Capital have been named top of their league as part of the annual International Shares Sector Review by research firm Zenith Investment Partners. Zenith, which provides research and fund manager ratings ...

No conflict, more interest on MLC

... industry and encourage more Australians to seek advice." Nick Coates, spokesperson for the Australian Consumer's Association (ACA), welcomed the move. "We're pleased that this is being examined by a large product provider and their planner groups," he ...

Time for another Wallis Inquiry

A leading academic has challenged the government's four pillar policy and called for a major review of the country's financial system akin to the scale of the 1996-97 Wallis Inquiry. Professor Ian Harper, executive director of the Centre for Business ...

MIR wins back its five star ratings

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
S&P has reinstated the five star ratings of four of MIR's equities funds which were placed on hold in May as a result of organisational changes. S&P fund analyst, Ken Ostergaard, said that after meeting MIR management as well as recently departed head ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2006

More than 180 delegates attended last night's 2006 Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards which recognised the outstanding achievements in marketing, sales and business development by an individual, a group of individuals or organisation in Australia's ...

Common sense rules in portfolio construction

Investors should not abandon a common sense approach to managing their portfolio after new academic research found that many claims about the superior portfolio construction of fund managers can not be statistically tested or verified. Steve Christie ...

Budget to pave the way for better advice: Stammer

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2006
Treasurer Costello's 11th Budget will force financial advisers to focus on investments rather than taxes, attendees at an Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) lunch were told yesterday. In his 26th ASFA post-Budget speech, leading economist ...

Jana offers long-short trusts to retail space

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
Jana Implemented Consulting (Jana), together with MLC, is stepping away from its traditional research and consulting space by launching two new alternative investment trusts aimed at the retail market. The Jana Australian Share Long Short Trust and ...

30 million super accounts and climbing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2006
... accounts, up from the average of 2.5 five years ago. Indeed, Peter Kell, chief executive of the Australian Consumers Association (ACA), said that many consumers call the ACA exasperated by how difficult it is to consolidate their super accounts. "It ...

Super funds to inject $1.5bn more into Aussie hedge funds

An academic survey has predicted that current allocation by major super funds to hedge funds will jump by $1.5 billion in the next two to five years, an increase from the current average allocation of 2.9 per cent to 4.1 per cent. The University of ...