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Schroders adds to sales team

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... Management Australia Limited has expanded its sales team with the appointment of a new institutional client director and research relationship manager. Kerrie Howard has joined the company as institutional client director, based in Melbourne, while Chris ...

AUI appoints head of portfolio management

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... he was responsible for advising institutional investors on all aspects of investment strategy. He also had specialist research responsibilities in international equities; currency management; and environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) policy. ...

Full steam ahead for MySuper

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... concerns that super is too complex as a key reason why MySuper will be implemented as planned. Minister Shorten quoted research from Colmar Brunton that showed consumers generally find information about super to be confusing, too complex, and full of ...

Count selects Lonsec and IRESS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
One of Australia's largest financial planning groups, Count Financial, has replaced van Eyk with Lonsec as its new research provider, and appointed IRESS as a software partner. Grant Kennaway, general manager of research at Lonsec, said the firm will ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... the December share price index contract was 65 points higher at 4,714 points, with 18,186 contracts traded. IG Market research analyst Ben Potter said the strength in the market since this morning was unexpected. "The market was basically dead flat for ...

Netwealth LifeWRAP goes live

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... and a client's risk. "As far as the insurance piece goes it's been very much driven by the advisers, a lot of our own research and also the external research has said that risk is very important to financial planners moving forward." Going forward, netwealth ...

Bottoms up

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... who view the world in macro terms often intuitively base their approach on a country's economic fundamentals. But new research suggests economic fundamentals may have little bearing on the performance of a country's stockmarket. According to a study ...

Lower tax rate opens local property to foreign investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... for 42 per cent of all commercial purchases over $4 million in the third quarter this year, according to CBRE's latest research. Echo Capital will provide asset and investment management services while CBRE will source assets and property services. "The ...

CFS GAM makes a case for raising govt debt

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... says that super funds could play a key role in absorbing higher bond issuance. Stephen Halmarick, head of investment research at Colonial First State Global Asset Management, said that increases in net government debt could actually lower interest rates ...

AMP, AXA and CFS planners choose own super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... planners channel the most sales into their parent firms' superannuation products out of six major planning groups, new research shows. According to new figures from Roy Morgan, which researched nearly 5,700 super products obtained through the top six ...