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ASIC starts shadow shopping

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... advice available to consumers in a new shadow shopping exercise that will start this year. ASIC will begin shadow shopping research to judge the quality of financial advice being given to retirees, but it said it is not about 'naming and shaming' advisers ...

VTP mulls management change

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... investment company Van Eyk Three Pillars (VTP) plans to terminate its relationship with its external managers, van Eyk Research, Three pillars Portfolio Managers and VTP Management, subject to further board discussions. VTP formed an in-principle agreement ...

Blue-collar workers shun advice: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... and they knew where to get help, they still believed that they can manage their finances themselves," said Du Plessis. Research indicates that individuals seek help from financial counsellors when their financial problems reach a 'tipping point' and ...

ISN urges members to seek intra-fund advice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... "This campaign is about encouraging people to contact their fund to seek financial advice on these types of issues." In research commissioned by the industry network, 82 per cent of respondents earning less than $100,000 per annum had not sought ongoing ...

A decade on, Frontier turns new leaf

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... seven-person committee called the Frontier Investment Policy and Strategy Committee (IPSC), which replaces the group's manager research and investment research forums. Heading the committee is Trafford-Walker as chair, Kristian Fok as deputy chair and ...

Last call for your say on law change

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... Australian investment managers to develop their own global expertise would be a potentially bigger opportunity. Rainmaker research reveals only one-third of global investments owned by Australian investors is managed by domestically-based investment ...

Mercer invests in consulting business

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... experience in the ESG field dovetails well with Mercer's own environmental focus, having recently launched a well-documented research report on climate change and its impact on strategic asset allocation. Mercer has made a series of further additions ...

Fund managers on the move: S&P

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... charge of their own destiny and achieving financial rewards through equity ownership," said, Leanne Milton, head of fund research, S&P. During the last year, 70 per cent of those leaving fund managers had been in the industry for more than 16 years. ...

Standard Life hires top Macq director

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... ($291.2 billion) in assets under administration as of the end of June, 2010, it says on its website. According to Rainmaker research, it had $130.9 million in domestically sourced funds under management as of the end of December.

Fund manager takes social media to next level

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... media, getting them involved in our fund." The fund manager also applies more traditional options such as investment research, analysis and valuation modeling. In October 2010, NakedFunds established its first fund, the NakedFunds Australian Share Fu ...