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Diamond Asset Advisors arrive in Aus

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
It's an asset class that is worth more 'in the rough' and local investors can get their hands on it through a Zurich-based firm with links to famous jeweler Harry Winston, which visited Melbourne last month to scope the local market. Diamond Asset Advisors ...

Year of the Rabbit, year of acquisitions: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... buy-backs, which makes for likely higher total shareholder returns," said Matthew Sutherland, head of Fidelity's Asia Pacific research team. It was not all good news, however, with the same analysts also concerned with the regulatory and inflationary ...

Treasury targets $18.8bn in lost super

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... save up to 25 per cent on superannuation administration costs equating to a saving of $1 billion each year, according to research conducted by Ernst & Young on behalf of the Financial Services Council (FSC). The FSC supported the draft proposal and the ...

Aus equities forecast to return 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... share buybacks - and I allowed for that in my thoughts for the share markets." Matt Sherwood, head of investment market research at Perpetual, agrees that the market is heading for an upswing but said for the ASX200 to reach 6,000 points, investors need ...

Former Count head of research joins Aviva

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
Rachel Griffith has joined Aviva Investors as head of research after leaving Count Financial late last year. The $5.5 billion-plus fund manager runs a suite of managed funds including in Australian Equities, Australian Resources and Sustainable Investment. ...

Global REITs to gain double-digits: INGIM

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... 12 per cent with dividends yielding around 4 per cent. The healthiest dividend payouts are likely to come from the US, research from fund manager INGIM shows. The group anticipates that property companies in the Asia Pacific region will outperform in ...

Sunsuper adds another property mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... growth strategy. The super fund has maintained a solid approach to its direct property mandate, with Rainmaker analysis research showing returns over rolling 12-month and 5-year periods found direct property has been significantly less volatile than ...

iShares increases ETF range

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... launched in Australia in 2007, are popular for their cost efficiency, simplicity and flexibility. According to BlackRock's research the global ETF/ETP industry is expected to reach US$2 trillion in assets under management by early 2012.

Large funds use scale to boost after-tax savings

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... proving too expensive to run in practice and, at current prices, is only cost-effective for multi-billion super funds, research shows. In its paper, Towers Watson studied how superannuation funds can follow several strategies to optimise their after-tax ...

ASIC outlines philosophy behind policy framework

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... has resulted in the provision of general or even factual information being much less available than it should be. The research underpinning the report also found that lack of trust in financial advisers remains a problem. ASIC said overcoming these challenges ...