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Increase your weight in gold

Research house van Eyk suggests investors increase their allocation to gold while market conditions remain attractive for the precious nugget. According to van Eyk's investment strategist Nigel Douglas, the prospects for gold have improved given renewed ...

Bluestone Mortgages targets brokers with online application system

Bluestone Mortgages has launched an electronic application system designed squarely at brokers. The new electronic loan application systems, called BlueLink, according to Bluestone's General Manager Paul Oliver, is an online tool which will significantly ...

Virgin and max in super battle for Gen-X, Y and Z

Virgin Super's aspiring grip on simple but exciting super faces serious challenge from new entrant max Super. The Melbourne-based fund launched this month provides superannuation products tailored for 25 to 40 year olds and they intend to be a serious ...

ONEcare scores top insurance ratings

ING's new insurance platform ONEcare has received top or near top ratings from insurance ratings groups to coincide with its recent launch. Helen Troup, ING executive director of life risk, at the product's launch last month said they worked with ratings ...

Trail commissions in super should be investigated: Industry Funds

Garry Weaven, the Industry Super Funds campaign spokesperson, has spoken out attacking the credibility of financial advisers who receive trail commissions. In a statement issued yesterday in response to an article just published by the Australian Consumers ...

Macquarie automates wrap downloads for planners

... introduced automated downloads from its Macquarie Wrap Solutions platform available to desk top financial planning software, Coin and XPLAN. The time saving feature means that financial planners already using Coin or XPLAN will now receive automatic ...

Westpac Staff Super changes its SRI policy on uranium

Westpac Staff Super has dropped its Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) policy ban on uranium mining stocks, to exclude only those companies who mine it 'directly' for weapons manufacture. The change to the company's SRI policy, in place since August ...

IUS Appoints Risk Products GM

IUS has appointed, a General Manager of Risk Products as the company turns its attention to the life sector insurance market. Phil Collins, will join the group from his former posting with Citicorp Life, and will oversee the company's new direction. ...

UK pension funds weaker than Oz

The UK pension funds market posted a second quarter return of 5.1 per cent amid rising fuel prices and weak company earnings affecting the global equities market during the same period. This is, however, the UK pension funds' ninth straight quarter ...

Funds management industry set for generational change

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2005
For an industry which barely caused a ripple 25 years ago, managed funds have become an $840 billion behemoth in Australia. But with an ageing population whose superannuation makes up 78 per cent of funds under management and a financially sophisticated ...