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IMCA offers 2011 scholarships

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... Institutional investment consultants and analysts servicing external institutional clients must apply by April 4;, Retail research analysts must apply by April 7;, Fund executives must apply by May 2;, Fund researchers, investment analysts or portfolio ...

Capital at risk in emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... linear... That's a fundamental fallacy that plagues a lot of emerging market investments," he said. According to Rainmaker research emerging market equity returns for wholesale managed funds averaged 7.62 per cent in the year to February with top performing ...

Equiti to launch US multifamily property fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... baby boomers and Generation Yers to own their own home. According to Leigh Gavin, senior consultant and head of property research at Frontier, home ownership in the US has fallen by almost 2 per cent since 2006, which equates to over two million households. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... final day of the March quarter after an "extremely strong recovery" over the last two weeks, said Geoff Saffer, head of research with Australian Stock Report. "The market obviously fell very heavily at the beginning of the month on the Japanese nuclear ...

New index launched to track super knowledge

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
One third of all Australians don't know what their employer pays into their super, according to research released at the Conference of Major Super Funds on the Gold Coast. The results of the first study in a biennial series, Tuning into Super, were ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... and PKF Chartered Accountants will release its Business and Population Monitor 2011. In equities news, Microsoft chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie is scheduled to address the Committee for Economic Development in Australia. Myer CEO Bernie ...

Super policies shortchange women

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
Women are severely disadvantaged by existing government rules on super, with new research that shows two in five women accumulate less than a year's worth of super come retirement. A survey of more than 800 Australian women, aged between 50 to 80 years ...

Adviser remuneration debate sparks fly

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
The Association of Financial Advice (AFA) hits back at Industry Super Fund research claiming consumers save $82,000 by retirement age by avoiding financial adviser fees. According to the AFA, this research was designed to distract consumers from industry ...

SMSFs avg balances hit $1m

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
New research from Rainmaker into self-managed super funds confirms that much of what we think we know about the sector is still driven by myths. An analysis the researcher conducted into SMSF figures available from the Australian Taxation Office and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... growth to 3.1 per cent from 2.8 per cent, more evidence of the strength of the economic recovery. But Blackberry Maker Research in Motion plunged 11.2 per cent after a quarterly report showed revenues below forecasts and a prediction of lower next-quarter ...