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Commonwealth FP restructures, head departs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
... the leadership team at CFP. Kylie MacFarlane, general manager of Whittaker Macnaught and Greg Hansen, head of strategic research and advocacy, were among other key executives in the leadership team.

Insurers post double-digit growth

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... double digit percentage growth in risk premium inflows last year - but overall sales in the risk market has slumped, research shows. According to Plan for Life, Australia's life risk market reported a 10.8 per cent rise in inflows over the year to March ...

Insync targets consumer and healthcare stocks

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... paper companies. Kotecha and chief executive Garry Wyatt formed Insync last year. They developed their own independent research and proprietary systems to produce a high concentration portfolio of 20 to 25 stocks. Kotecha has previously worked at BT ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... forward (thanks Julia for making this phrase unhip), why don't we try historical precedence? The folks at CNBC cite a research by Standard & Poor's that observed, "a bad January often portends a poor full-year return, but when that bad start is compounded ...

AFAC and APESB launch fresh debate on fiduciary duty

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MEDIA RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... planners/accountants fulfilling their fiduciary duty. Gale disagrees but said they would rather speak with APESB first and show them new research that found many investors who use financial advisers want choice on how they remunerate their planner. "In ...

Tower and IRESS launch Accelerate Connect

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... four to five months in providing a cooperative integrated solution [with Tower]," said Louie Dimovski, head of IRESS Research Services. "We've created this with other insurers before but with minimal assistance from them. Tower took the extra step to ...

Pengana gains 'three stars' rating

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... the medium term. Rhett Kessler manages the fund and has more than 17 years experience. He previously worked as head of research at IAG Asset Management where he ran similar absolute return strategies. He is supported by Anton du Preez, who joined Pengana ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... the September share price index contract was 21 points lower at 4,412 points, with 11,767 contracts traded. IG Markets research analyst Ben Potter said it was likely to be a "fairly quiet" day's trade, due to the mixed leads from Wall Street overnight ...

The octopus on fees versus commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... just completed soccer World Cup hosted in South Africa. Rainmaker this morning used the app to complete groundbreaking research into the vexed issue of commissions versus fees in how advisers should be paid. The Ask Octopus app came down in favour of ...

Super-sized super powers up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... more than treble the size of the biggest super fund in the country (the Cooper Review noted it as $41 billion but other research numbers elsewhere are higher). He said that given its scale, the pension fund can manage more investments in-house and is ...