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La Trobe mortgage fund scoops industry award

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... both financial planners and retail investors," Andrews continued. Andrews said the key to the PMO's success lay in the quality of the assets it holds. "Unlike our competitors, the fund is not exposed to massive commercial construction projects but rather ...

New multi-sector portfolio manager for Perpetual

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... excess of $5 billion across the range of Perpetual Balanced Funds. Zenith Investment Partners recently recognised the quality of the Opportunity Funds awarding a Recommended rating in the review conducted in June 2012.

Prime real estate no longer attractive: LaSalle

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
With the upside from prime commercial real estate looking decidedly limited, investors need to widen the net if they want capital growth from their property portfolio, according to LaSalle's Paul Guest. Global risk aversion since the onset of the financial ...

Beware complex absolute return funds: Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
As absolute return funds grow in popularity, investors must be wary of exposing to products they don't fully understand, according to Lonsec. A wealth of new outcome-based equity products has sprung up in recent years, capitalising on the disappointing ...

Accounting firm takes on wealth management

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... Lord said that he had worked with HLB Mann Judd Melbourne in the past and was attracted by their professionalism and quality of service. "HLB Mann Judd Melbourne was looking to build a more sophisticated client offering in the wealth management area ...

AustralianSuper wins ASFA campaign of the year award

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... light of MySuper and the challenge of member engagement, it is essential for the industry to aspire to the very best quality of communications." The full list of award winners included: Integrated campaign of the year Popular Choice Award winner: Mercer ...

FPA awards Australia's best financial planners

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... financial challenges as a consequence of their illness. Rantall said that he had been extremely impressed by the high quality of the financial planners nominated for both the state and national awards this year. "The FPA has always strived to improve ...

Super fund awards natural resources mandate

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... money towards becoming institutional grade." It is a space where there is room for more competition, but evaluating the quality of resources is critical, said Whitten, who had just returned from the Cooper Basin on a research trip. "Last week we also ...

Financial Standard names FS Smileys finalists

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... 100-point selection criteria that looked at how each of them rated across five categories: their social media presence, quality of connection, level of amplification of their social media message, creativity in execution and vision. Each application ...

Christian Super appoints State Street as custodian

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... State Street's capability in custody and fund accounting we were impressed by their investment analytics, including the quality of their reporting, the level of detail they could provide on our investments and their ability to look through data on our ...