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NGS Super launches direct investment platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... only fund that has trained in house financial planners on advice and use of the tool. "NGS Super has undertaken detailed research into why super fund members move to self-managed funds, so we know that more investment choice and a greater say over where ...

Half of Australians not confident managing money

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... products work. In contrast, 47.5% of Australians do not feel confident when managing their money, an annual Roy Morgan Research Consumer Single Source survey of 50,000 people found. "There is an opportunity for financial institutions and government bodies ...

Planners shy away from margin lending advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... with planners' average return expectation from the All Ordinaries for the next year rising 9% in September 2013. The research showed the total outstanding margin debt from the financial planner channel falling to $4.4 billion in September 2013, down ...

Bennelong Long Short Equity Management launches new fund

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... the objective of generating consistent returns regardless of market conditions. The investment team applies fundamental research to identify pairs of securities, seeking to capture alpha whilst limiting exposure to market risk by adopting a dollar neutral ...

Saxo launches social trading platform

HARRY PAGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... also contains a range of content for traders, such as market news and views, data, insights and trade ideas from Saxo's research teams and VIP authors.

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

HARRY PAGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... www.financialstandard.com.au, can also be accessed in the app through the 'Breaking News' section. For investment professionals, the research tables on super funds and managed funds performance data - supplied by Rainmaker Information and publishers ...

Lifecycle the future of pensions globally: Mercer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
Lifecycle strategies are the future of both retail and industry superannuation, despite the latter so far favouring the static strategic asset allocation (SAA) for their MySuper options, according to Mercer senior partner Graeme Mather. Researched released ...

Fund manager criticises "rip-off" fees

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... Alan McFarlane has more than 30 years' industry experience. In that time, he has seen substantial changes in the way research is conducted and how portfolios are managed. "All the necessary information used to be so hard to get and so the expense of ...

Retail funds favour lifecycle MySuper options

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... lifecycle approach, while all but four industry funds have opted for static strategic asset allocation (SAA), according to research by Mercer. The release of the research, entitled 'MySuper Market Trends', comes at the end of the MySuper regime's first ...

Appleyard defends free SMSF service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... getting cheaper, i.e. to a free point." Appleyard said CleverSuper had many educational tools that allowed members to "buy research, portfolios, access advisers, blogs, videos - all sorts of things. So we are going to be very, very pro-education." He ...