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St George appoints margin lending head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... Developing a superannuation gearing product would be the division's focus in the coming months, said Curry. He said investor education also would remain the division's imperative. "In January, we proactively communicated to planners the process around ...

Industry fund ads off target?

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
... she said. Stoykov suggested both retail and industry funds needed to focus more on web interaction for future investor education and communication, citing data that stated 60 per cent of people looking to purchase or keep a financial product looked at ...

Super funds to invest direct into infrastructure

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
... funds into direct infrastructure investment, according to Gabriel Szondy, managing director of the Centre for Investor Education. With contributions last financial year up between 23 and 35 per cent per quarter over the previous year, and expected total ...

ADPIA lobbies for fin literacy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2007
... property association representing $20 billion of investor assets has joined the industrywide call for better investor education after thousands of mum-and-dads lost $1 billion on high yield but high risk investment products. Speaking at a conference ...

AIMA boosts executive committee

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
... looked forward to working with the expanded Executive Committee and with industry stakeholders to increase investor education, promote best practice, and liaise with regulators and other organisations to ensure the responsible use of alternative investments. ...

Citibank's Agent Penny: licensed to teach

Citibank in Malaysia has stepped up to the plate with a forward thinking investor education initiative that uses a comic book character called Agent Penny to promote financial education among young kids. Not to be confused with the great 007 character ...

$38bn VFMC bigger and better

... their assets under management (AUM). The other two fresh appointees are Melda Donnelly, chair of the Centre of Investor Education and Ian Court, who is an expert in private asset investing and was previously chief executive of alternative investment ...

Regulatory reform next on the agenda: Treasury

... key issues for the industry and the Government in the short term were revising the regulatory environment and investor education. Pearce said that disclosure had been the cornerstone for providing objective financial advice, but that disclosure could ...

Funds management industry set for generational change

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2005
... competitors if we sharpen our offerings in the years ahead: more tailored services, lower costs, and further investor education," he says

US online broker taps into local options market

... and US market, where investors have embraced a more comprehensive package of online brokerage services for investor education, strategy evaluation and trade execution," adds Stern. optionsXpress Australia's general manager Stuart Cureton says, "Given ...