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FPA calls for greater scrutiny of fund managers

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... managers must be held to account just like financial planners, says The Financial Planning Association's Dante De Gori. Research from State Street published yesterday showed that less than half of Australian's believed advisers acted in the best interest ...

Market anxiety shrouds SMSF appetite for equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
Self-managed super fund members' allocations to equities has not kept pace with the rise in value shown by the strong recent performance of the Australian share market, the Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey for September shows. The survey covered ...

van Eyk launches new asset allocation tool

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
Investment research house van Eyk has launched a new tactical asset allocation tool for advisers. The new tool forms part of the release of version 4.0 of iRate, the online portal which gives van Eyk's clients access its fund manager and shares research ...

Estelle Pearson Actuary of the Year

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... globally recognised Enterprise Risk Management qualification (CERA), and TAL's Darren Wickham in 2008 for ground breaking research on retirement savings reform. Pearson has presented at numerous industry conferences and events, and inspires the next ...

Most consumers distrust advisers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... interest when offering products and services, according to a global investor study by the State Street Centre for Applied Research. The entitled The Influential Investor: How Investor Behaviour is Redefining Performance, is based on 12 months of research ...

Hermes launches global quant equities ESG strategy

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... natural extension of Hermes' existing quantitative global equity investment process, fully incorporating Hermes EOS' research into the investment process in a systematic manner," commented Geir Lode, head of quantitative equities at Hermes. The new global ...

Investors need mid-term protection: BT

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... against a capital loss and 47% are only holding cash as a temporary strategy until the markets improve, said Lonergan Research. Lonergan surveyed over 1000 Australians aged 50-64 in September 2012. Wrap Capital Protection is available today on over 80 ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... surrounding the 'fiscal cliff' is giving most investors pause right now," said Jim Cunningham at Schaeffer's Investment Research. LONDON - European stock markets steadied on Friday and the euro dropped against the US dollar after a week dominated by ...

Successful Telstra bond issue to open flood gates for big banks

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... the first from the company since 2005, were sold to the market at a yield of 4%. D'Amato, managing director of market research specialist Lincoln Indicators believes that falling term-deposit rates and continued stock market volatility have created a ...

Financial Standard names FS Smileys finalists

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... social networks while 53% of active adult social networkers follow a brand, according to AllTwitter.com. In Australia, research by Zurich found that 42% of financial advisers now use social media daily and 38% at least weekly. Richard Dunkerley (@rdunkerley) ...