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AXA's North man joins NAB

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... and the range of North products, which proved popular with financial advisers. So much so that according to Rainmaker Research, the AXA North platform was the fastest-growing platform on the market last year, with its superannuation business up 400 per ...

Solaris rated 'highly recommended'

FUND UPDATE  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
Solaris Investment Management has received a 'highly recommended' rating from Lonsec for its Core Australian Equity Fund and the High Alpha Australian Equity Fund. This is the second consecutive year the fund's Core strategy has received Lonsec's highest ...

AMP FP names head of product research

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
Following former AMP Financial Planning research manager's Brendan Irwin departure last month, the group has promoted Lucie McFarlane to head of product research for AMP and Hillross. McFarlane will begin her new role next week. AMP said McFarlane's ...

Three in five advisers opt out of opt-in: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
Research published last week reveals fierce resistance from financial advisers to adopt the proposed annual 'opt-in' reforms, arguing the approach could do more damage than not to their clients' portfolios and impose more compliance burden on their ...

Value Partners top Asia fund tables

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... of 28 members and received a "BB" rating from van Eyk in October last year due to its large team and strong depth of research.

Ratings firm expands fund coverage

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
Investment research house Morningstar has started its closed-end funds (CEFs) analyst coverage of 30 individual funds, with plans to expand its qualitative analyst research reports to listed investment companies (LICs) in Australia. As part of the coverage ...

Homegrown techs gain top billing

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
... Information and Communications Technology exports and about 60 per cent of Australia's total business expenditure on Research & Development," she said. Australia was ranked seventh out of 134 countries surveyed by the World Economic Forum for the sophistication ...

Russell to launch insto ETFs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... the ETFs can be effective. If they're larger, they can use it as a short-term tool," she said. "We're doing a lot of research at the moment about where their challenges are in portfolio construction, and we want to built ETFs around [meeting those] challenges," ...

Super contribs to SMSFs down, asset alloc steady

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... contributions fell by more than 20 per cent in the last quarter - following similar patterns throughout last year, new research shows. According to figures from Multiport, the December quarter saw the average inflow of contributions to SMSFs decrease ...

Macq Private Wealth appoints COO

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... her new role, Yeoh will support Macquarie's 400-plus financial advisers in both Australia and New Zealand, providing research, marketing, training, operations, strategy and execution tools. Additionally, Yeoh will meet the needs of Macquarie's advisers ...