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NGS Super considers Shariah-compliant option

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
NGS Super is looking to launch a Shariah-compliant investment option based on the feedback from the Islamic members of the fund. Chief executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball told the audience at yesterday's Rainmaker Marketing Symposium that the fund is working ...

Investors call planners to charge performance-based fees

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
Performance-based fees have traditionally been the domain of fund managers - but research shows a growing number of investors are urging financial planners to start adopting this fee structure. Mark Johnston, principal of research firm Investment Trends ...

Timing the market still a tough game: survey

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
The CMC Markets Share Trader Insight Survey for the six months to July 2010 found that the periods in which most investors decided to put extra cash into the market corresponded with peaks in the All Ordinaries Index, while many pulled out just before ...

Former liquidator face 19 ASIC charges

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
ASIC have announced that former liquidator, Stuart Ariff, has been released on conditional bail after appearing before court with 19 criminal charges from an ASIC investigation. Appearing before Hornsby Local Court, Ariff is facing charges relating ...

Snowball stays on track

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
Snowball Group Limited saw funds under management and advice rise 19 per cent to $4.8 billion and management is planning for a busy year ahead. Snowball announced that its underlying NPAT up 2 per cent to $6.2 million, while its funds under management ...

AQR wins $330m-plus insto mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
Less than three months after AQR launched its Global Enhanced Equity Fund, the firm has received $337 million in mandates from three institutional investors - and is well on track to reach the $620 million mark. Jeff Dunn, head of AQR's Australian institutional ...

Solid results for BT Wrap and Westpac

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
The BT Wrap/Asgard platform received $1 billion in inflows for the March quarter, while its parent company Westpac reported strong third quarter results with cash earnings of around $1.4 billion. According to the Westpac 2010 August Update and Pillar ...

Hung

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
By now many of you, fellow Australians, would have had enough of the commentaries, in-depth analyses, finger-pointing, spins, recriminations, soul searching, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera that preceded and followed last Saturday's Australian elections. ...

DB's Boyton sees "slow, steady decline" in Aussie housing

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
Deutsche Bank Australia chief economist Adam Boyton weighed in on one of the hottest topics within wealth management at the Deutsche Asset Management conference this morning in Sydney. "The long-term trajectory I think for house prices in Australia ...

More workshops to prep for fee-for-service

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
From only a fraction of financial planning groups offering advice through fee-for-service five years ago, the advice model has now gone mainstream - and there are workshops a-plenty for those who are still mulling over their options. Seven years ago ...