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Outsourcing FM admin doesn't reduce staff

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
Australian investment managers who outsource their investment operations have only 8% less staff than those who manage their operations internally, according to new research by Investit. The SimCorp sponsored Future of Investment Operations report found ...

Funds should target retirement income not returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... plays out is that women on average have a 70% chance they'll run out of money before the end of their life. Cooper said a major flaw in most super funds is they are structurally designed to focus on headline investment returns rather than the end-game ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... rose on Wednesday. At 0840 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up 27 points at 4,249. No major local economic news is expected on Thursday. In equities news, Ten Network Holdings and National Australia Bank post full ...

Wealthy prefer online shopping

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... comfortable with online purchasing they will step up their online expenditure across more item categories. For example, while the major categories are now clothes, airline tickets, music and computer games, this will broaden into higher yield bigger ...

Market Report- Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher, after Wall Street and the major Europen markets finished up overnight. At 0847 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 32 points at 4,281. In economic news on Tuesday ...

FOFA reforms are a soft landing

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... MP told AFA conference delegates that the future of financial advice reforms represent a balance between the interests of major stakeholders and the middle ground. Ripoll said the inquiry that bears his name received over 400 submissions and that the ...

Exec pay in Australia too high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... Ballmer has a base pay of $650,000, and a bonus last year of the same amount. "For the head of human resources at one of our major companies to receive $5 million this year highlights the discrepancies in Australia. Boards need to address the issue ...

Multiport hits $2bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... the SMSF market shows how fragmented the SMSF marketplace remains. The fragmentation is because, while there are around 10 major SMSF external administration groups providing services to the sector, with dozens of smaller accounting groups offering their ...

Somethin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
Quiet please, EU meeting in progress. Yes Virginia, they're still at it. Two years on and Europe's back at the negotiating table trying to dig their way out of the hole first dug by Greece in October 2009. One begins to wonder how they were able consummate ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
The Australian share market was fairly flat at noon with gains among the banks cancelled out by falls in the stocks of many miners. At 1223 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 10.9 points, or 0.26 per cent, at 4,155.8 while the broader All Ordinaries ...