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Ray King added to Ashington super fund court case

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... fulfil this commitment. Now, a partner specialising in investments at Mercer Ray King and his company Sovereign Investment Research Pty Limited have been added to the list of defendants. According to Anderson, the super fund defendants raised the question ...

Nine in 10 Australians can't get no insurance satisfaction: survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... link between the insurance adequacy of those who seek professional advice and those who don't. Overall, only 22% of the research respondents had analysed the type and amount of cover that suited their specific needs and, of those, only 54% had consulted ...

Women on boards have no influence in performance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
The appointment of women in boards does not necessarily affect company performance or shareholder behaviour, research by University of New South Wales professor RenA(C)e Adams has found. Adams, who was speaking at the Platypus Asset Management Symposium ...

Compliance costs Aussie advisers $15k versus global peers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... spend on administration and compliance compared to global advisers is costing them more than $15,000 a year, according to research by CoreData. Administration and compliance make up about 30% of Australian advisers' total time on average, with 15.6% ...

Perpetual wins Morningstar Fund Manager of the Year

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... all shown themselves to be first-class stewards of their investors' capital," Morningstar Australasia co-head of fund research Tim Murphy said. "The quality of their people, process, parent, price, and performance are a testament to their commitment ...

FEATURE: Advisers go solo

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014

Advised pre-retirees more confident about retirement

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... pre-retirees are more confident than non-advised that they will achieve the level of wealth they require in retirement, CoreData research found. The CoreData 2014 Post-retirement Report found that 65.1% of pre-retirees that do not seek professional advice ...

Regulators must enforce rules, not write them: Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... also countered the view that compulsory superannuation directs too much money away from the banking sector. He said that research by Monash University's Professor Rodney Maddock, commissioned by the FSC, found that superannuation funds re-route large ...

Dalton Nicol Reid wins $40m Intrust mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... estimated 33 mandates with the top 10 accounting for less than two thirds of their overall FUM, according to Rainmaker research. The flagship Dalton Nicol Reid Australian Equities High Conviction Portfolio posted a 10% outperformance of its S&P ASX200 ...

La Trobe mortgage fund gets "Strong" rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... strongly rated by other independent Rating Houses including Lonsec - Recommended, Zenith - Recommended and SQM Superior Research - 4 Stars. La Trobe Financial president Greg O'Neill said that he was very proud to receive this recent rating recognition ...