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Foreign banks lag locals, but for how long?

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2006
Despite deregulation of the banking system and foreign banks moving into Australia, local banks still have a mortgage over the banking industry. APRA has just released a quarterly snapshot of the financial performance of all banks that reveals that ...

Fund flows up across most areas: AXA

AXA Asia Pacific Holdings revealed positive fund flows and new business results for the year ended 31 December 2005. Most areas were significantly up on 2004. Total net fund flows in Australia and New Zealand were up 139.6 per cent to $9.55 billion ...

Boutiques to flourish in growing super pool

Boutique fund managers are set to thrive in 2006 as Australia's superannuation pool swells towards $1 trillion. According Bruce Bell, managing director of Bellwether Partners, superannuation assets now totally more than $800 billion provide great impetus ...

INVESCO advances Australia flair

Investors may be seeing an exodus to international equities funds but Rohan Walsh, fund manager at INVESCO Australian Share Fund, says investors can have their cake and eat it too - at home. Walsh has been managing the fund since 1994, and it has posted ...

Companies make smooth IFRS transition: ASIC

Australian companies have made a smooth transition to the Australian equivalent to IFRS, according to an ASIC review into the implementation of the new reporting standards. Jeffrey Lucy, chairman of ASIC, released ASIC's findings. "Transition to AIFRS ...

InvestorWeb hypes up Hyperion

InvestorWeb Research rates Hyperion Australian Growth Companies Fund a 'Buy' and says it has the potential to significantly outperform markets suited to growth investing. Over the past year, Hyperion Australian Growth posted a 28.83 per cent gain, beating ...

Tasplan calls for incentives to drive super contributions

The argument for super contribution continues, with Tasplan general manager, Neil Cassidy, calling on the Federal Government to introduce further incentives to encourage low income earners to boost savings. "The simple truth of the matter is that the ...

2006 market conditions will suit value investing: Tyndall

Tyndall, Standard and Poor's 2005 fund manager of the year, is warning that bonds would give few returns and equities may remain "overpriced" and these conditions will suit value managers. Bob Van Muster, head of equities, said as value managers Tyndall ...

And the award goes to Asgard, Macq and CFS First Choice

The top three investment platforms in the country - Asgard adviserNET, Macquarie Wrap and CFS First Choice - are within a hair's difference of each other on the performance stakes, according to a recent survey on the best of the best in the platform ...

Labor's super plans costly, complex and a disincentive: Liberals

The Liberal Party has attacked Labor's plans to phase out superannuation contributions tax for some people as "extraordinarily complex and costly." Assistant Treasurer, Mal Brough, said yesterday that Labor's plan to phase out the contributions tax ...