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Top mandate winners woo super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... mandates last year, as Australia's $1.3 trillion superannuation industry gears up for more mandate deals this year, new research shows. The latest Rainmaker Mandate Chaser report notes Macquarie, which was awarded 11 mandates, won the most investment ...

AMP Capital expands Aust Eq team

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... as a sell-side equity analyst for Merrill Lynch in London and Swedbank in Stockholm. Transferring from head of credit research and senior portfolio manager for AMP Capital's fixed income team, Andrew Lally was appointed to senior portfolio manager and ...

Super funds still lag in understanding ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... in properly incorporating environmental, social and governance factors in their investments, a new report found. New research by Corporate Analysis, Enhanced Responsibility and Seacliff Consulting found that there are still strong disconnects between ...

Season's Greetings from the Financial Standard team

... time, the website will remain active and readers will still have full access to the news archives and Intelligence Unit research and analysis. We thank you for your support and look forward to discussing the issues affecting the financial services industry ...

Platforms climb back from GFC to $399bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... to $399 billion in the 12 months to end September 2010, confirming they have fully recovered their GFC losses, reveals research just released by Rainmaker. This platform growth broadly matched superannuation's 8 per cent growth but significantly exceeded ...

Fees for alternatives under pressure

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... their fees in the already pricey alternatives arena," said Divyesh Hindocha, global director of consulting, Mercer. The research also found that, unique to Australia, boutique funds have higher average fees than other managers, with local boutiques protective ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... volume of 38,011 contracts. Around five stocks had risen compared to four declines on the S&P/ASX50 by noon. IG Markets research analyst Ben Potter said the strength of local financial stocks had surprised him given the sector in the US had been weaker ...

Lift the bar on default funds: ISN

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... banking arm, Industry Funds Management for funds management, IFS for financial services and financial planning and ISN for research, policy development and advocacy.

Perpetual sees 8pc upside for ASX200

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... Perpetual, the average price return of the Australian market since 1875 stands at 6 per cent. Perpetual's head of investment research, Matthew Sherwood, said he is expecting the index to trade in a range between 4,600 and 5,200 next year. He argued that ...

Advisers must unite against AusFin

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... collectively all advisers are opaque and self-motivated and worse, untrustworthy," he said. The AFA's Back to Basics research paper proved that in fact clients who have advisers rank them amongst the top three most trusted professionals in their lives. ...