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Wine critic pours out frustration at fund managers

Leading wine critic Jeremy Oliver has criticised the increasing role that share industry analysts and fund managers, with little hands-on wine industry experience, are taking in strategic decision-making processes. Oliver believes decisions are being ...

Single manager products a dying breed: InvestorWeb

The rise of master trusts and wraps in the retail market is strangling the single manager multi asset product, according to InvestorWeb Research. In its inaugural multi manager superannuation survey, it said that the largest corporate super funds in ...

BHP Billiton and Gilbertson settle on $12.43 million payout

BHP has announced that it has reached agreement with Brian Gilbertson on a termination payout that could see the former chief executive officer pocket up to $12.43 million-in addition to defined benefit superannuation payments of $1.51 million per annum. ...

Henry predicts solid growth in 2004, explains CGS commitment

Australia will record solid but not spectacular economic growth next financial year, according to Treasury Secretary Ken Henry. Addressing an Australian Business Economists gathering, Henry said growth was also solid this financial year, despite the ...

Perpetual Trustees to replace Bradley as managing director

Perpetual Trustees Australia has announced that managing director Graham Bradley is to be replaced after conducting a strategy review that concluded "the timing was right" for a new chief executive to lead the company "through a new growth phase." Bradley ...

Telstra Super unveils revamped investment strategy

Telstra Super has announced that it will implement a series of changes across its Member Investment Choice (MIC) options from July 1. The changes come on the back of an extensive six-month review of the fund's investment structure that have factored ...

FEA scraps ongoing fees from new woodlot project

Forest Enterprises Australia (FEA) has announced the release of its new woodlot project for 2003, its eleventh managed investment scheme. "The project that we are announcing today differs significantly fro our offering of last year with no ongoing fees ...

"Watch out for fixed interest risks": ASIC warns investors

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned investors to watch out for the different levels of risk attached to fixed interest investments. "The sharemarket downturn and uncertainty about property investments are generating ...

Value outperforms growth, but no time to switch: Mercer

The profound impact of investment styles on returns over the past three years has again been highlighted, this time by Mercer Investment Consulting's latest survey. In the three years to March 2003, growth stocks returned -24.6 per cent while value ...

Super investment in innovative strategies "questionable": APRA

The compulsory nature of superannuation savings makes it "questionable" whether these funds should be channelled into "cutting edge" financial investments that may involve a higher level of risk-such as hedge funds-the Australian and Prudential Regulation ...