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Perennial Aussie equities fund receives Zenith rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... Wealth Defender fund, which was launched in late May 2014. The fund received a 'recommended' rating from Zenith. The research house said that the fund "provides investors with a unique exposure to Australian equities which is intuitively appealing." ...

Cap market efficiency plummets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Reinforcing why the government initiated the Financial System Inquiry, economic research by Industry Super Australia has revealed that the financial services sector is becoming less efficient at raising capital. The cause of the problem, according to ...

Consumers ask banks to disclose brand ownership

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... used by banks to hide their ownership and would like institutions to disclose who owns them when they advertise, new research found. As many as 84% of respondents, in research surveying 1,520 people, thought that banks should disclose who owns them when ...

Mercer reveals confronting life expectancy research

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
New mortality rate research showing white collar workers can expect to live well beyond the average life expectancy highlights the challenge of achieving a comfortable retirement. Mercer's analysis into the mortality rates of public sector pensioners ...

Legg Mason wins $125m Mercer mandate

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... business, Mercer Investments. The company joins Mercer's stable of small company managers after a long period of analysis and research by the consultant. "Legg Mason believes its combination of investment experience, long term performance results, quality ...

Skaffold appointment signals assault on SMSF market

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Stock research company Skaffold.com has appointed Trevor Clisby to lead its expansion into financial services and self-managed super fund (SMSF) administrator markets. Clisby's title is head of wholesale markets. He has over 25 years of financial markets ...

Giving through PAFs back to pre-crisis level

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... 30 June 2012. Welfare continued to be the best supported cause, receiving 28% of donations from PAFs, while health and research saw the strongest gains with each receiving 13% of distributions. The report's author, John McLeod of JBWere's philanthropic ...

Consumers have no loyalty to financial institutions

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... four financial institutions and generally have only about one third of their products with any one bank," Roy Morgan Research's Norman Morris said. "While most institutions have made some small gains in product cross sell since 2010, overall they have ...

Law firm rubbishes Grattan fee report

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... the Grattan report (titled 'Super sting: How to stop Australians paying too much for superannuation') and claims the research is "limited and should not be used to guide policy." A consultant to Herbert Smith Freehills, Dr Scott Donald from the Centre ...

Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... policy suggestion came just a few weeks after the Reserve Bank of Australia issued a discussion paper that presented research that argued Australian housing is overvalued and given expectations of only moderate capital appreciation in housing over the ...