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Celeste FM 'better placed': Villante

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Frank Villante, chief investment officer at Celeste Funds Management, formerly Souls Funds Management, said the business is better placed than it was prior to Treasury Group buying a stake in the business in November last year. This comes after Villante ...

Sentry selects van Eyk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
Research house van Eyk has signed a three-year contract with dealer firm Sentry Group, which has over $2 billion in funds under management. The deal gives Sentry's more than 185 practices, which encompass 330 financial advisers, access to iRate, van ...

Applications open for investment consulting program

IMCA ANNOUNCEMENT  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... examination (Level 2). To date, the program has been completed by 100 graduates, mainly from the investment consulting and research sectors of the industry. Topics covered by the course includes manager selection and due diligence asset allocation; duration ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... Exchange, the March share price index futures contract was 27 points lower at 4,852 on volume of 12,668 contracts. IG Markets research analyst Ben Potter said investors were wary in holding positions ahead of a heavy night of economic data due during ...

US firm launches religious ETFs

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... FaithShares Christian Values fund and FaithShares Methodist Values fund. The ETFs were developed with FTSE Group and KLD Research and Analytics, which provide information on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in investments. The investment ...

Star ratings face predictability test

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
Research group Morningstar has rebutted a US study that suggested its ratings system failed or virtually lost all of its predicted ability when measured over a full market cycle. In early December, Advisor Perspectives, a US-based investment trends ...

Fixing an industry on steroids

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... fastest growing loan categories in the US were all real estate related. But having written more than 10,000 pages of research criticising the banking model in the past decade, Mayo put forward three ways to fix the system. "The first and easiest change ...

Integration key to AXA bid

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
As the debate heats up on who will emerge as the new owner of AXA Asia Pacific, new research by Rainmaker suggests the more burning issue is how the winner would digest the acquisition - and the impact of that on the local wealth management sector. ...

BT adds oil and gold to super portfolios

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... month, the main option available across BT's suite of superannuation products. Among the key changes, the group's internal research team recommended a direct exposure to commodities (from zero allocation to 4 per cent) as a hedge against a number of ...

AXA adds 20 funds to APL

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... jumping on the bandwagon so we sat back and watched them a little bit," said Robert Thomas, national manager of technical research and paraplanning at AXA Australia. Thomas said the additional funds do not reflect a tilt towards passive or active investment ...