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Vanguard wins adviser vote

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... domestic stocks to deliver only 6% capital gains on average over the next year (down from 8% in the previous report). Unsurprisingly, then, respondents have allocated 39% of new client investments into international assets over the past 12 months (Investment ...

Financial services SMEs top confidence survey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... challenging environment than any other sector, however. Eight in 10 said they have a positive business outlook. Unsurprisingly, companies in NSW and Victoria were more optimistic than in Western Australia, where 57% of respondents were more worried about ...

Government tables FoFA bill in House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... government needs to table the proposed amendments to the Parliament as legislation before the end of the year. Unsurprisingly, Greens spokesperson for consumer affairs, competition policy and small business Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said that the FoFA ...

Super fund trustees say manager fees too high

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... were too many fund managers in the Australian market and expected the number to drop over the next five years. Unsurprisingly, just one in ten managers thinks the same. Individually, more than 90% of managers expect their businesses to grow in the next ...

High risk investors lose appetite for risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... products compared to last year, jumping from 7% to 13.6%. CoreData also surveyed investor satisfaction with cash. Unsurprisingly given the low cash rate only one in five were satisfied or very satisfied. However, three in five said they would not reallocate ...

Advisers coming round to social media

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... general manager Retail for Zurich's Life and Investments business said the most prolific users of social media were, unsurprisingly, younger advisers who had been in the industry for five to 10 years. "This demonstrates that the next generation of advisers ...

Insto investors want better marketing material

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... information provided in the initial fund documentation was considered to be "good or better" by the majority of investors Unsurprisingly, 52% of institutional investors surveyed considered it important or very important to be able to directly compare ...

Flexibility not returns, drive SMSFs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... the survey, data on SMSF returns is nonetheless still largely anecdotal. For example, around 90% of SMSF trustees unsurprisingly self-report they are happy with the returns their fund achieves. But Rice cautioned that this may be due to many SMSF trustees ...

Financial service execs earn big bucks

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... among the best paid professionals, according to the Australian Financial Review's latest executive salary report. Unsurprisingly, Big Four bank bosses feature prominently high up the list with ANZ chief Mike Smith taking top spot with a total salary ...

Market down 5%: Resources look ugly

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... companies of the attraction of yield to investors, and/or confidence that earnings will improve in full year 2013. Unsurprisingly, resources remain the key driver (-25%) as earnings have slid in line with commodity prices, without any of the usual cushion ...