Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 7281 - 7290 of 11312 results for "research"

WB advisers join CBA's Financial Wisdom

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... CBA's umbrella in an attempt to deal with "an increasingly comply regulatory environment." "After much consideration and research we elected to make the change to Financial Wisdom in order to access the resources and service support that Financial Wisdom ...

Research houses flag 'rating shopping' to advisers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
Research houses Zenith, van Eyk and Morningstar will make it easier for advisers to see when a fund manager pulls out of the rating process following new regulatory guidelines aimed at preventing investment houses from shopping around for favourable ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITERS  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... http://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 ...

Insurers take "adversarial approach" to claims

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
Consumers do not trust insurance companies mostly because of their "adversarial approach" to claims, a recent research shows. A study conducted by the Beddoes Institute found out that "people spoke negatively of their experiences making claims against ...

Weak tenant demand hurts Aussie property outlook

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... varying greatly from country to country - was helped by a recovery in overall capital markets. La Salle global head of research and strategy Jacques Gordon said recent market turbulence has made real estate more attractive as an asset class. "With so ...

Property fund veteran Wist joins Hadley Green

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
Property funds industry veteran Mark Wist has joined Hadley Green Investment Group as director, strategy and research, based in Sydney. Wist was previously a senior consultant at Atchison Consultants in Melbourne. He has more than 20 years' experience ...

Self-education cap to harm senior workers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... lifetime," he said. O'Neill alerted that there is a risk that senior professionals retire early as a consequence. According to research by National Seniors Productive Ageing Centre, early retirement has a detrimental effect on the Australian economy ...

Investors warned off making extra super contributions

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... saving of $1,123 in tax. However, Montgomery, who heads up two share portfolios as well as running online stock market research tool, Skaffold, said that the tax regime is far from certain and locking money in until you are 65 exposes you to the whims ...

Advisers hitting SMSF service targets

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... advisers' self-evaluation for meeting the needs of SMSF clients had increased from 8.4 out of ten to 8.7 in 2013. The research also showed that advisers rated functionality of cash products as their highest priority. They rated Macquarie's cash solutions ...

BetaShares partners FTSE in new ETF launch

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... managing director Alex Vynokur said. The FTSE RAFI Australia 200 Index is part of the FTSE RAFI Index Series developed with Research Affiliates LLC, which selects and weights constituents according to four fundamental factors - sales, cash flow, book ...