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Invesco shuns global brands in Asian growth story

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... of developing nations becoming developed, we find that income levels typically settle at around US$30,000 per capita in modern day terms," said Yuen. "Most of the emerging Asian economies like China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines ...

Zurich launches adviser iPad app

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... will be available not long after the iPad. "This is a great opportunity for advisers to engage with their clients in a modern and flexible manner." "Not only can they conduct a needs analysis on the spot with the client present, they can also adjust ...

Media Super $30m alpha mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... Super has awarded Aurora Funds Limited a $30 million mandate as the super fund pursues a more suitable strategy for the modern, volatile market. The mandate was invested in the Aurora Fortitude Absolute Return Strategy, which Media Super selected for ...

Super funds need modern platforms to disclose holdings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... Hill said the mistake they make is trying to patch up their old system when they should just throw it out in favour of a modern one, like his own firm's SimCorp Dimension platform. Dimension has about $400 billion in funds under management in Australia ...

Customisable, original, scalable, networked: the next advice paradigm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... ramifications of these price shocks will be vast, extreme and affect everyone in the industry. These developments will force modern advice firms and their representatives to evolve into businesses capable of delivering customizable services to their ...

Black swans test strength of portfolio construction

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... what the data says." "In real life things are not normally distributed." This fat tail risk represents a limitation for modern portfolio theory and Robinson said it was a problem for model assumptions. Another problem for asset allocations is that correlations ...

Investors eye aged care infrastructure

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... Commission gave way to mergers and acquisitions opportunities for domestic and foreign investment. Currently investment in modern nursing homes is stilted due to Australian Government's planning targets, with price and supply constraints as the Government ...

Praemium renews with MSSB

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... as the industry solution for wealth management firms to achieve business efficiency. "(It does this) through the use of modern investment administration and tax management functionality not available from the traditional wrap account and master trust ...

Commonwealth trustee reforms passes Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
Legislation consolidating the trustee arrangements of the Commonwealth's main military and civilian superannuation schemes into a single entity passed the Senate this week. In a statement, the government said the new structure will modernise commonwealth ...

Minister faces down advisers over opt-in, risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... agreement every two years is beating financial planners to a pulp," he said. Minister Shorten said he did not accept that in a modern office advisers could not organise around opt-in with a minimum of fuss, given a three-year lead-in time. The Minister ...