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Manage ideas not just money

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
Rather than just hand over mandates to several money managers hoping their separate investment decisions don't cancel each other out, Russell's new emulation strategy instead pays managers for their best ideas that the firm then centrally implements. ...

Fundies must upskill in low-carbon world

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
A $500 billion carrot awaits the new breed of fund managers willing to do their homework on climate change, but the road to the burgeoning investment sector is full of stumbling blocks. Speaking at an IMCA briefing this week, DWS investment analyst ...

SuperTrace cuts fees and jazzes website

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
SuperTrace Eligible Rollover Fund (ERF) has axed benefit payment fees and unveiled a new online search function to help customers find and consolidate lost and inactive super accounts. SuperTrace confirmed that it is eliminating all direct member fees ...

LUCRF makes history

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
The superannuation industry doesn't often talk about its history but 2008 marks a century since the introduction of age pensions and thirty years since the birth of LUCRF, Australia's first modern super fund. The revolution began a century ago when ...

AXA buys Challenger's Genesys

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
AXA's influence in Australia's financial advice industry is set to escalate with today's $150 million purchase of Challenger's financial planning business Genesys Wealth Advisers and proprietary platform Synergy. The deal, which is expected to be finalised ...

QIC develops better anti-inflation strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
Rising world inflation has sparked QIC to develop more innovative ways of insulating their investors from the negative impacts it will have on their long term savings. QIC noted that inflation is now moving into the fifth year of being above its long ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
The Australian share market has had a positive lead from Wall Street, but lower metals prices in London could prove a dampener today. At 0740 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index was down 15 points at 5,956. In economics news ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
Treasurer Wayne Swan has donned his hardhat and launched Australia on a massive $40 billion nation building program centred on three new investment funds designed to fix infrastructure, health and education while also kick starting Australia's regional ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
The Australian share market has received mixed lead from Wall Street, with the Dow Jones index down 0.34 per cent, the blue chip S&P500 index barely changed and the Nasdaq technical index up slightly. But resources stocks may receive a boost from strong ...

Health insurance lobby lessons

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
The reforms to the private health insurance rebate and the industry reaction to it should be studied by everyone in wealth management who seeks to influence government policy. A furious health insurance industry came out fighting yesterday after the ...