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ACFS names award finalists

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... and sponsored by the Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC), is part of the annual Melbourne Financial Services Symposium (MFSS) to be held on 1 March 2011. The award nominees were selected for two categories, Investment Manager and Superannuation ...

Fiduciary duty goes beyond APLs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... vice president, funds analyst at Credit Suisse Private Banking and panelist at last week's annual Rainmaker Marketing Symposium, said external research houses' ratings should not be used to formulate advisers' approved products lists. She cited FOS' ...

Subscriber-pays ratings approach more critical: van Eyk

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... the performance of those managers, said van Eyk chief executive, Mark Thomas. In a speech to the Rainmaker Marketing Symposium in Sydney last week, he said there was evidence to show that van Eyk adopted a much tougher line when assessing the performance ...

FSP appoints recruitment manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... was created to help spearhead the dealer group's growth plans. The appointment coincides with FSP's Future Directions Symposium events around the country, designed to help planners transition to the fee-for-service model. "Allan is very familiar with ...

Legal risks pose social media stumbling blocks

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... easy access to the minds of our clients and our customers...we can't ignore it." Wells said at the Rainmaker Marketing Symposium last week that half of investment management providers are still in discovery mode when it comes to social media... and understanding ...

More wealth mgmt on web

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... expert. Barbara Cooke, communications director at Thomson Reuters, told the attendees of last week's Rainmaker Marketing Symposium how they are tailoring their strategies to the way people are consuming electronic media in the last two years, which is ...

Focus on member retirement outcomes

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... and peer performance, said Troy Rieck, QIC head of capital markets. Speaking at the 16th annual Rainmaker Marketing symposium late last week, Rieck said benchmarks were "rubbish", arguing that many benchmarks are deeply flawed, and pointing out that ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... is the message US Federal Reserve Chairman Big Bernanke delivered to the financial world at the Fed's annual monetary symposium held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on 27 August 2010. Wall Street stopped... listened... and rejoiced. Neither the US Commerce ...

NGS Super takes fresh route to tap EM

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
Speaking at the Rainmaker Marketing Symposium yesterday on how super funds and fund managers can collaborate more on investments, one super fund suggested the idea of creating tailored resources mandates. Anthony Rodwell-Ball, chief executive officer ...

NGS Super considers Shariah-compliant option

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... Islamic members of the fund. Chief executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball told the audience at yesterday's Rainmaker Marketing Symposium that the fund is working with fund managers to create a new investment option that meets of their diverse member base. Rodwell-Ball ...