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Planners urged to address ethics

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... AFA. Jim Taggart, national president of the Association of Financial Advisers, quotes the industry body's Back to Basics research that show Australians who use advisers highly trust them. But that's where the trust factor, to a large extent, ends. Roy ...

Demystifying the "flash crash"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... Instinet, the true source of the market spasm was not just that trade, but a broader evaporation in liquidity. "Based on our research, we do not find pinning the cause of the "flash crash" to a single order satisfying," said Alison Crosthwait, director ...

AXA IM gains more from European property

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... as 30 per cent as the sector comes out of one of the worst periods for global real estate. Kiran Patel, global head of research and strategy at AXA Real Estate, said that average real estate prices have fallen 35 per cent in Europe and 45 per cent in ...

Australia well behind in carbon pricing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... arrangements, physical impact risk, and market opportunities In related news, the Climate Institute today launched global research into carbon pricing in the electricity sector of six key economies - Australia, China, USA, UK, Japan, South Korea. According ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... first monthly decline since June 2009. Remember that month? That was when - according to the National Bureau of Economic Research Business Cycle Dating Committee - the US recession ended. Well guess what? The fresh data on industrial output suggest - ...

Van Eyk completes China review

NEWS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... for having the largest investment team in the review, and being competitive relative to its peers in the depth of its research. However, van Eyk questions the product's high management and performance fees, with its base fee of 2 per cent per year the ...

Queuing for QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... commitment to take "decisive" steps if needed to stem the yen's appreciation. Britain's Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) now expects the Bank of England to keep nail interest rates at 0.5 per cent until late 2012 and announce another ...

Assets that thrive under pressure

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... investments were the top three asset classes based on growth in funds under management (FUM), according to Rainmaker research. Figures show that these three asset classes grew their FUM between June 2007 and June 2010, a time when almost all other asset ...

The ever-shrinking pool of property fund managers

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
The pool of direct property fund managers in Australia has almost halved since the GFC, research shows. Mark Wist, of Melbourne-based Atchison Consulting, said that the number of property fund managers in Australia has fallen from 1,043 back in 2008 ...

Super funds call for new fee paradigm

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... Trustees (AIST) has renewed calls for alternatives to the existing asset-based and performance-based fee models. The AIST research published last month recommends a hybrid fixed dollar fee/performance fee model as a way to reward fund managers for meeting ...