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Magnitude to grow FUA by 50 per cent

Magnitude Financial Planning has reached more than $1 billion funds under administration (FUA) and is set to gain an additional $500 million more in the next three months. The BT-owned dealer group was set up in February last year and has gone from ...

ALP Govt will boost personal contributions: Swan

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
It's taken two decades, but it seems superannuation is looming as an election issue, albeit a lower order one, as the Labor Party and the Government slug it out over which Party has the best future plan for the industry and for investors. Shadow Treasurer ...

Govt slams Labor on ASIC budget cuts

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
The Federal Government has slammed the Opposition's proposal to cut funding for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), saying reduced resources and capabilities would be welcome news for criminals. Responding to the Federal Opposition's ...

Macq and Citi offer best of more worlds

The brainiacs at Macquarie and Citigroup have been busy creating products that offer investors the best of both worlds, letting investors scoop up all the returns of the best performing investments and none of the losses from the worst. MQ Specialist ...

Up and down the fee chain: Mercer

Mercer Investment Consulting has released a global study of institutional management fees that found which asset classes charge a lot and country-by-country fee differences. The key findings were that fee levels have remained stable since 2004 and ...

Build websites around users not IT teams

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
Financial services firms investing in new websites, software or other digital services risk lost customers and cost blow-outs if they don't test the new services with actual users. Theresa Cunnington, senior usability consultant at iFocus, said, "Technology ...

Sen Chapman explains Parliamentary Inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
Holding his cards close to his chest, Senator Grant Chapman, Chairman of the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Structure and Operation of the Superannuation Industry, gave a few hints about the big issues confronting the Inquiry. Speaking at the Association ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
Financial markets across the world have held up reasonably well despite North Korea's nuclear tests that sent shockwaves across global financial markets on Monday. Most markets recovered by Tuesday and the US Dow Jones Industrial Index reached its record ...

Funds must make it easier to amalgamate small accounts: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
Treasurer Peter Costello, speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) conference this week, said the superannuation industry must work harder to make amalgamations of small accounts easier. "Kids have got a whole lot of part-time ...

LaSalle welcomes new client services director

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
LaSalle Investment Management has appointed a senior Mercer consultant as director of client services in Australia. David Quirk will lead LaSalle's strategy in bringing global unlisted direct real estate funds to the Australian institutional space. ...