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R&D focus giving Asian companies greater pricing power

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
A dramatic increase in the amount Asian companies are spending on research and development means many are fast becoming world beaters, according to one Fidelity portfolio manager. Presenting to more than 300 advisers at an event in Sydney with regional ...

UniSuper signs insurance deal with TAL

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... than $35 billion on funds under management and 460,000 members who are mostly current and former higher education and research employees.

Acorn appoints Asia Small Cap portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... Quah joins Acorn Capital from Hong Kong-based stockbroker CLSA Asia-Pacific, where he was head of regional small mid cap research for the last six years. Prior to that, he was with Macquarie Securities in Hong Kong as deputy head of small cap research. ...

Women without kids still at super disadvantage

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
Women amass substantially less super than men, regardless of whether or not they have children, according to a new research paper by the Australian Institute. The paper, entitled 'What's choice got to do with it?' found that even if women work full ...

Credit Suisse to launch small-cap business with First NZ Capital

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... Institute of Financial Professionals New Zealand (Infinz) last year. Current Credit Suisse head of domestic equities research sales will head the new business's securities team. The new venture is subject to regulatory and other approvals.

Former Hostplus marketing head joins Frontier

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). Frontier has also appointed former Frontier employee Michael Sofer to the real assets research team and the quantitative solutions group. He will also take on client responsibilities. Sofer left Frontier in 2012 ...

Vale Aberdeen's Wallace and McMenigall

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013

Scaled advice to shape industry future

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... will bring an increase of demand for scaled advice over the long term and the cost of advice will go down, Rice Warner research commissioned by Industry Super Network (ISN) found. The report based on modelling and projections of what could happen in ...

Fraud and cybercrime biggest non-investment risks to family offices

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... Alliance's 2012 Inaugural Security Study. For the study - which was conducted in two parts -- the US-based family office research and resource provider asked 35 single-family offices to answer a set of security questions. Then a further 24 firms, including ...

A-REITS rewarded for cleaning up act

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... simplifying their capital structures with robust performance and strong inflows over the last 12-18 months, according to research house Lonsec. The Australian Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) sector has risen 24.2% in the 12 months to 30 June to ...