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Planners make their budget wishes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... Government goes into budget lockdown, financial advisers have named their dearest wishes - and it's not for free set top boxes. Concessional caps, tax concessions for advice fees and a cut in the company tax rate were at the top of the wish list among ...

Gold is hip again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... back. Yes, gold! It's hip again! For a while there, since the beginning of the year, gold was stuffed back into jewelry boxes as speculation about the rise and rise of the yellow metal died down. It became uncool to wear gold earrings, necklaces, rings ...

Credit Suisse launches all-round fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
Credit Suisse is ticking all the boxes for financial planning clients looking to re-enter investment markets with a capital protection product that provides exposure to Australian shares, resources stocks and Chinese securities. The Credit Suisse Performance ...

Hedge funds lag index returns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... to index funds and top performing hedge fund managers. "The losers out of all this is going to be the fund of fund black boxes... I think you're going to see more institutional money going into index exposure; bonds, equities to diversify their portfolio ...

Health Super gives aid to fire victims

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... Time, skills and money are not the only things being offered by Health Super. Clothing items, animal food, toiletries and boxes of hand cream have been collected and dispersed among those affected by the fires to ease the impact of the devastations. ...

CFS eyes fundamental indexing

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... have a potential to outperform capital weighted indexes. "RAFI, or [the] fundamental indexing concept, ticked all those boxes," said Bissaker. Bissaker said the offering will include a set of Aussie small and large cap products, and international equity ...

CHOICE selects top FHSAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... interest is calculated daily and compounded monthly or quarterly on the full account balance. AMP, NTCU and VTCU all ticked the boxes, according to CHOICE. By contrast, the consumer body reported that Commonwealth Bank didn't meet their standards because ...

Climate change funds tick all the boxes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... production as well, said Peers. "In the wind value chain there are only about two or three companies that make all the gear boxes for the wind turbines and this creates supply bottlenecks. We expect price growth of up to 20 per cent per annum because ...

MLC adopts straight through processing

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
... navigation? Tick. Straight through processing (STP) features? Tick. MLC has unveiled a new website that it believes checks all the boxes for adviser functionality. One key element of the new website is its STP function that will require zero manual handling ...

Cut PDS to less than 20 pages: study

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... information. "For many of the investors we interviewed, the PDSs were quite simply incomprehensible. Ticking all the right boxes for legal compliance has resulted in the document that runs counter to its intended purpose - which is to inform people," ...