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Star manager Tagliaferro adopts "mentor role"

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... preparing for the future. "I'm developing some very good people like [senior portfolio manager and head of investment research] Hugh Giddy, [senior portfolio manager] Simon Conn and [Equity Income Fund portfolio manager] Jason Teh," Tagliaferro said. ...

LUCRF Super joins global calls to improve worker safety

STAFF REPORTER  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... companies to join the Accord. In 2011, LUCRF Super partnered with the Australian Council of Super Investors (ACSI) to produce research papers into the labour standards and human rights policies of Australia's top 200 companies. The results found that ...

Direct investment growth changes landscape

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... said. The quantitative and qualitative analysis from the 2013 Direct Investing report represent the findings from online research conducted between the 31 July and the 14 August, 2013, completed by a total of 1,139 respondents. CoreData head of advice ...

Govt confirms SG delay, kills LICS

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... increase the SG but the Industry Super Australia (ISA) has roundly condemned the move to repeal the LICS legislation. "FSC research demonstrates that there is a retirement savings gap of over $1 trillion. Increasing superannuation contribution rates ...

Rational exuberance?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... justification to buy CDOs in the mid-2000s. And then, the GFC. Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. But as I was doing my research last night, I came across a chart of the S&P 500 index and US nominal GDP...and it got me concerned. The S&P 500 index is ...

Lonsec nabs Investec equities team

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... broking division. Rod Clarkson, Tim Gerrard and Colin McLelland will join Lonsec as senior Resources specialists as the research provider expands its offering in resources and equity capital market research. "At a time when many industry participants ...

TAL to disrupt 'status quo' with newly-created role

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... into the role on November. He will be moving to Australia from the UK, where he has been Innovation director at Cancer Research UK. There, he launched a website to raise public awareness to accelerate cancer research by helping to analyse the results ...

Stakeholders form retirement panel to assist advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... Panel for Retirement that will assist advisers in meeting the investment needs of their clients through white papers and research. The panel is formed by Lonsec Research, Milliman, BT Investment Management, Colonial First State, Macquarie, Metlife, MLC ...

AltaVista upgrades Portfolio Builder tech tool

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
Exchange Traded Fund research group AltaVista Research has upgraded its Portfolio Builder that enables advisors to blend their own ETF Model Portfolios. Explaining how the system could be used, AltaVista said: "while the number of ETFs in Australia ...

Aust portfolio disclosure reforms toughest in world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013