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Australia leads in global median wealth

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
The median wealth of Australians continues to be the highest in the world, a Credit Suisse Research Institute report released today reveals. Dubbed the annual Global Wealth Report, the research shows Asia Pacific overtaking Europe as the world's largest ...

Urbanisation fuelling resource demand

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... with Australia currently in the middle of one of the tougher phases, he said. "The price boom may be over, but the volume story still has a long way to run," said Van Munster. Based on a 'price to earnings' (PE) ratio, there continues to be a high level ...

Investorfirst board in chaos

STAFF REPORTER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... executive-elect David Spessot, just six months after he took up the job. Financial Standard will provide more detail on this story as it continues to unfold.

Trilogy takeover attempt piracy: LM

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
An attempt by Trilogy Funds Management (Trilogy) to replace LM Investment Management Ltd (LM) as Manager of two LM feeder funds is opportunistic, hostile and without any consideration of investors' interests. This was the underlying sentiment within ...

Overseas investors' demand replacement of LM as RE

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
Unitholders in a group of mortgage funds - plus a significant number of overseas investors - want to replace the Gold Coast-based LM Investment Management (LM) with Trilogy Funds Management Limited (Trilogy) as the Responsible Entity (RE). LM is the ...

Mandates slugged by downturn

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
The economic downturn has taken a sizable toll on the size and volume of mandates in 2012, according to recently released Rainmaker research. Highlights from Rainmaker's Mandate Chaser research reveal that mandate appointments (441) in the year to 30 ...

Fund managers bullish on Asian bonds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... tend to be less volatile. While many investors previously used to invest in Asian bonds and equities to capture the growth story and higher yield within emerging markets, the change in the way risk is perceived since the GFC has resulted in a re-evaluation ...

Platforms at 10 year low

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
Nervousness in underlying global investment markets, caused by ongoing European financial crises, plus massive US budget blowouts has contributed to net inflows into the platform market reaching their lowest levels in ten years, a recent report reveals. ...

Chris Ryan Joins MSCI

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, announced today that Chris Ryan has joined the firm as Head of Asia Pacific. In this newly created role, Ryan will work closely with all of MSCI's business units, functional ...

NSW and CFS partner in first gov retail annuity bond

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
Colonial First State (CFS) and the NSW Government have announced a new arrangement that will see the NSW Waratah Annuity Bond offered on the CFS FirstWrap, one of the fastest growing platforms in the industry. The NSW Waratah Annuity Bond, developed ...