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Succession planning major issue for advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... that over the fact that they're now almost 59... And it's getting older. Each year it goes up a year according to our research. So we're not seeing a huge influx of younger people taking equity stakes."

90 West Global Natural Resources awarded two ratings

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
The 90 West Global Natural Resources Fund has received a 'Recommended' rating from both Lonsec Research and Zenith Investment Partners. The fund is managed by David Whitten from specialist global resources manager 90 West Asset Management. It seeks ...

Retail funds still unable to match industry fund popularity

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... for retail funds and, according to Roy Morgan, many have accredited it "to differences in investment allocations." The research also shows that satisfaction depends on the members' balances. People holding balances lower than $5,000 have slightly higher ...

Naos adds portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... less than 30 stocks. Many other funds management businesses aren't able to hold the stocks we do due to our ability to research and investigate smaller companies that are often priced inefficiently by the market. Due to Ben's experience we believe he ...

401(k) plans to reach $6trn by 2018

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... Total private defined contribution (DC) assets in the US are expected to surpass $6 trillion in 2018, according to new research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates. "Our projections indicate that, by the end of the decade, total private DC ...

Retail investor confidence in domestic market low

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... and there are no signs that investment behaviour is likely to change in the near term, GSAM said. The asset manager's research reveals that investors with financial advisers are more likely to have more diversified portfolios, and profess to have a better ...

Industry fund brands stronger than retail

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
Industry super funds have the edge over their retail counterparts when it comes to brand perception, new research by CoreData shows. CoreData's Super Fund Brand Research Q4 2014 asked more than 2,000 Australians to rate the largest 23 superannuation ...

PIMCO appoints vice president, client analytics

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
PIMCO has appointed Dr. Laura Ryan as its new vice president, client analytics. Based in Sydney, Ryan will research and develop client solutions models for asset allocation, dynamic strategies and risk factor budgeting. As part of PIMCO's analytics ...

Zenith awards two funds 'Recommended' ratings

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
Research house Zenith has awarded 'Recommended' ratings to two international equity funds. JPMorgan's Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund received the rating with Zenith praising the investment team as "is one of the strongest within the emerging market ...

Boutique corporate super realigns following MySuper

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
MySuper may be triggering a readjustment in the corporate platform market as fund groups that have elected not to pursue MySuper authorisation shift their focus away from corporate default products toward select and personal products. The findings are ...