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Fear for financial future reigns

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... their future financial wellbeing than their fellow workers in recessionary countries, according to new Towers Watson research. Results from its latest Global Workforce Study (GWS) reveal that more than half of Australian employees (56%) are worried about ...

Market shocks likely: Advance Asset Management

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... of markets as soon as the last quarter of this year, said Felix Stephen, Advance Asset Management head of strategy and research. Elections in the United States, turmoil in the Middle East, the European sovereign debt crisis and a slow down of Chinese ...

Lonsec urges advisers to revisit EMs

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
After a "brutal" year for emerging market investors, things might be looking up, said research house Lonsec. It has been a rocky ride for emerging market investors over the past 12 months, with "true believers in the merits of an expending emerging ...

Untargeted tax subsidies inept

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
New research suggests that the untargeted nature of tax concessions - the mainstay of Australia's universal superannuation system - make them highly inefficient. The Australia Institute's (TAI) recently released study, 'Can the taxpayer afford 'self-funded' ...

Macquarie focuses on independents with Visor

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... this year. The latest package release, 3.9 in July focused on business efficiency including an expansion of the existing research offering, integrating a Mercer Investments feed to sit alongside existing research feeds from Van Eyk, Lonsec and Mornin ...

New analyst for AB Australia

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
Global investment management firm AllianceBernstein today announced the appointment of a new research analyst, James Robertson, to the AllianceBernstein Value team. He will initially cover metals, mining and chemicals. He joins AllianceBernstein from ...

ETSL appoints superannuation chair

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... Ethical Investment. She has also been a director of the Financial Services Council, The Centre for Australian Ethical Research Pty Ltd, and the ANZ Staff Superannuation Fund. In addition, Adrian Young, managing director of ETSL, has also retired. Young ...

Super loyalty defies low return expectations

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
CoreData research reveals robust investor attachment to non-performing funds. It is investor apathy, argues Kristen Turnbull the researcher's head of advice, wealth and super which led over half of the members surveyed (57%) to suggest they would stick ...

Further dark pool regulation premature: Fidessa

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... execution results in widening spreads, higher costs for investors and a negative impact on price discovery. "New Australian research demonstrates that fragmentation of the lit market has a major impact on transaction costs in the Australian market where ...

Towers Watson expands equities team

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
Global consultant Towers Watson has expanded its Australian equities manager research team with two new hires. Nick Kelly has been appointed as an investment consultant and Matthew Conacher as an investment research analyst in the Australian equities ...