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Access all asset classes: Vanguard

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
... exposure across all asset classes is through properly diversified passive investing. While banking and financial services are major contributors to the Australian index and would continue to underpin the index's climb north, Roger McIntosh, Vanguard ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
... general meeting today, with chairman Don Argus telling shareholders that growth in north east Asia will continue to be a major driver of the global economy. Weaker commodity prices overnight impacted on the miner's stock, which gained just seven cents ...

VFMC to take investments in-house

... part to do the pieces that can be done internally, internally, and build the organisation to do that." VFMC has undergone a major staff restructure in the past twelve months since the government gave it the mandate to take over the investment allocation ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
... sharemarket is expected to open stronger today as US markets ended higher and as rising energy prices promise to buoy shares of major mining companies. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0816 AEDT, the December share price index contract was up 15 points ...

More global, more professional: FPSB

... Standards Board (FPSB), the umbrella body that offers Certified Financial Planners (CFP) certification, is undergoing a major system overhaul that will benefit CFP-accredited financial planners by making their accreditation recognised around the world. ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2006
... the December share price index contract gained 28 points to 5474, on a volume of 4338 contracts. Resources stocks were the major movers on the market, thanks to stronger metals prices. Nickel hit a new high on Friday, pulling zinc close to peak levels ...

Party like it's 1999: Allianz Global

The predicted slowdown of global economic growth will focus attention back towards stocks which have been out of favour since the 1999 stockmarket bubble, according to RCM (UK), the Allianz Global Investors-owned equities specialist. Lucy MacDonald ...

Private equity shakes up public markets

... firms to buy the smaller hardware suppliers and unseat Bunnings as the leader in that sector. "Private equity can play a major role in the rationalization of this $12 billion industry," she said. Nicholls cautioned however that while super funds have ...

Active extension moves into Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
... to Australia it is becoming a mainstream strategy in the US with an estimate $48 billion managed this way driven by some major pension funds already allocating up to 5 of their portfolio into the style. Dr Martin Leibowitz, managing director of the Morgan ...

Multiple super accounts wasting billions in fees: CHOICE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
... and has even drawn the ire of Treasurer Peter Costello who has threatened legislative solutions if they did not respond. A major reform in the 2006 Federal Budget is the creation of a standard super fund transfer form, to be implemented from 1 July 2007. ...