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PE firms struggling with data management

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
... equity firms are struggling with document management and disseminating data into market intelligence, according to global research conducted jointly by TABB Group and SunGard. The team behind the research surveyed 119 senior private equity executives ...

Retail super members more likely to switch funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... and SMSF counterparts, with investment performance being the main concern cited, according to a report by Roy Morgan Research. The report, entitled 'Superannuation and Wealth Management in Australia", found that members of AMP were least satisfied, with ...

Frontier research alliance expands to UK and Europe

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... Specialist investment advisory business Frontier Advisors and Segal Rogerscasey, founding members of the Global Investment Research Alliance (GIRA), have expanded their reach adding a London-based consulting firm. Investment, actuarial and risk management ...

FSC questions pertinence of APRA super stats

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... older demographic, adding: "To do otherwise would be reckless." However, David Haynes, executive manager of policy and research at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, said that this argument was invalid, as corporate and public sector ...

BlackRock ends "unfair" analyst surveys

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... Investments Commission (ASIC) recently conducted a review into domestic incidences of fund managers sending surveys to research houses, after some research houses became concerned about the potential improper use of their research surveys by fund managers ...

FUM, Super, platforms all end year on high note

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013

Challenger acquires SMSF business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
... with approximately 5,500 accounting firms. "Bendzulla is a strategic investment for our company in terms of SMSF retiree research, product and service development and distribution," Challenger chief executive Brian Benari said. "While all retirees value ...

Majority of Australians remain wary of technology

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... technology that ranges from those being cautious about spending money on it to those who are straight technophobes. Roy Morgan research into how Australians use and adapt to technology revealed that 18% of Australians are technophobes who are uninterested ...

Risk adviser sentiment up in 2013

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... industry and their roles as professionals and as business owners," Zurich Life general manager of Retail Philip Kewin said. Research was conducted by Beaton Research and Consulting, which questioned 200 advisers actively writing life risk insurance. ...

SMSFs eye offshore assets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... top five barriers cited however, only one reflects concern in markets while the rest relate to a lack of knowledge or research available - 9% of investors say they don't know enough about international investing and 7% said lack of research deterred ...