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State Street Global Advisors appoints Don Hamson to head Australian equities

State Street Global Advisors (SsgA) has today announced the appointment of Don Hamson as head of active Australian equities. Mr Hamson was previously the chief investment officer of Westpac Investment Management and general manager of investments for ...

ACA statement draws fire from AFA

... continued by saying that any family that relied upon this advice and subsequently lost a breadwinner may be able to sue the ACA for the resultant loss.

US regulator warned of hedge fund risks

The Washington-based Investment Company Institute (ICI), representing over 8,000 US mutual funds, has warned the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that individual investors and financial advisers rarely had the skills to knowledgably invest ...

FPA, IFSA & NIBA launch "plain English" consumer guides

The Financial Planning Association (FPA), The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) and National Insurance Brokers Association (NIBA) have announced the completion of a "plain English" guide for Statement of Advice (SOA) and model Financial ...

Value outperforms growth, but no time to switch: Mercer

The profound impact of investment styles on returns over the past three years has again been highlighted, this time by Mercer Investment Consulting's latest survey. In the three years to March 2003, growth stocks returned -24.6 per cent while value ...

Financial planners get chance to turn tables on media

... since the release of the critical Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)/Australian Consumers Association (ACA) report. "It will be interesting to see who runs the findings of the survey," Child said. "I suspect those who finish at the ...

Investment Analysis: The small cap explosion

Small capitalisation value stocks are comfortably the most prolific wealth generator over the long term for investors prepared to wear the additional risk, according to research conducted by Financial Standard chief economist Dr Robert Pereira. "Good ...

Planners concede need for tighter policing: Adviser Ratings

... group Adviser Ratings. In a survey of 700 planners conducted in the wake of the damning Australian Consumers Association (ACA)/Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) report, Adviser Ratings said that 94 per cent thought that "policing ...

FPA unveils revamp of CFP education program

Paul Cully The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has announced a revamp of its Certified Financial Planner education program in a move that it hopes will raise industry standards as a whole, in recognition of the "need to maintain continuing professional ...

Advice fears won't halt 'choice of super': Coonan

... protect Australians from poor quality financial advice, referring to the recently-released Australian Consumers Association (ACA)/Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) study into the quality of advice. "The simple fact is that at the ...