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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
The Australian share market has opened higher as takeover activity and speculation helped shrug off a negative US lead. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 6.1 points to 5,479.70, while the all ordinaries gained 5.8 points to 5,461.9. ...

Rainmaker's CompareOnline now compares 385 super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
Rainmaker's CompareOnline super fund comparative web software for financial planners and super funds now compares 385 funds representing 18 million members and $460 billion in assets. "SelectingSuper's CompareOnline provides financial advisers, paraplanners ...

HOST-PLUS is Money Magazine's best of the best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
HOST-PLUS has won the Money Magazine Best of the Best super fund award for 2007. HOST-PLUS was also a finalist in the Rainmaker SelectingSuper Fund of the Year Awards and this latest accolade caps off a big year for the public offer industry fund. David ...

Access Economics still top consultant: Rainmaker

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
The latest Rainmaker super fund asset consultant performance survey confirms Access Economics has held onto top spot as Australia's best performing asset consultant. According to the report, Access Economics topped the 2005-06 performance tables, with ...

Plum treads its own path past $8b

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
Plum Financial Services has just passed $8 billion in funds under administration, the business putting its success down to a focus on member retirement outcomes and the incorporation of behavioural finance into product development. Managing director ...

Devote 20 per cent or more to direct property: ADPIA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
The Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA) said investors should be allocating at least 20 per cent of their portfolios to direct property. An analysis of asset class performance data for the last 10 and 20 years, undertaken by Atchison ...

Another Dimension to DFA

Flush from the success of its current suite of products, leading fund manager Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) has today launched a new fund that follows the same winning formula but with a global tilt. DFA senior portfolio manager Andrew Cain said that ...

Up and down the fee chain: Mercer

Mercer Investment Consulting has released a global study of institutional management fees that found which asset classes charge a lot and country-by-country fee differences. The key findings were that fee levels have remained stable since 2004 and ...

Wealth managers will have difficulty with AML

WWW.THESHEET.COM.AU  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2006
The financial services organisations that will struggle most with the introduction of anti-money laundering programs are those that may otherwise be least affected by it - the life companies and investment managers in the wealth management sector. Steve ...

Analyse bonds differently to equities: Loomis Sayles

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2006
Bond markets behave differently to equity markets and investors trained around equities need to adjust their thinking when investing in income securities. Brett Wander, director of alpha strategies for Loomis Sayles, said, "It is commonplace to find ...