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Wizard founder builds Yellow Brick Road

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris and former UBS banker Bryan Davies have joined forces to create new retail advice and wealth management company Yellow Brick Road (YBR). The company will focus on after-tax returns, offering advice, accounting ...

Zenith recommends Barwon/Select PE fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
... management buy-ins and leveraged buy-outs. Zenith Director David Smythe said, "Overall, Zenith believes the Portfolio is of sound structure, utilises robust and disciplined investment processes and accesses a specialist manager with strong depth of experience ...

More alpha through lower trading costs: BGI

... predicting the potential costs of a transaction before it is made. Less than four basis points difference or 0.04 per cent may sound minimal but the overall impact can be substantial because super funds and managed funds are getting larger, thanks to ...

QSuper champions fin literacy

... stale documentary-like feel of most educational DVDs into a more sassy, short film reel. Peterman said that it might not sound like a revolutionary step but it attempts to engage their younger members, who make up more than a third of their total membership ...

Watson Wyatt loses senior consultant to Hyperion

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
... money, which is his passion, so it's a lovely combination." Spence said he was excited to be joining Hyperion, with its sound business model and differentiated approach to constructing benchmark-insensitive portfolios. "I am particularly pleased to be ...

Planners should not face criminal charges: FPA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
... provisions in place that both protect consumers and support the important role that financial planners play in providing sound advice," said FPA chief executive officer, Jo-Anne Bloch. "Failure to provide a disclosure document in a timely way does not ...

Aussie businesses still risky: Deloitte

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2007
... normal management activities - 48 per cent said they lacked adequate risk monitoring and reviewing. While such figures should sound large warning bells, Australia was not alone, according to Deloitte's global risk management survey of 130 institutions ...

US giant targets local mortgage insurance market

... Insurance Corporation). "We have a strong team in place that is ready to bring MGIC's flexible, innovative and prudentially sound products to Australia. Our preliminary discussions with lenders have reaffirmed our belief that Australia is the right choice ...

Value planners on profitability, not scale

With a raft of financial planning groups lining up for an initial public offering (IPO) or merger, Paragem's managing director, Ian Knox, has urged would-be investors to first understand the business models that exist in the planning sector. Once seen ...

HESTA joins better research alliance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... managers to incorporate such factors into their investment decisions, we are seeking to embed these considerations, crucial for sound long-term management, within mainstream company analysis," Fowler said. HESTA, the industry fund for health and community ...