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Unlocking the door to adviser education

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... award for over four years now," said Hawke. "The experience has confirmed that our industry is in safe hands with the quality of advisers coming through." This year's award went to Finn Kelly, the 26 year old chief executive and founder of Victorian ...

ACSI remands News Corp governance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... chief executive should be separate. "A protest vote will send a clear message from global investors that the current quality of corporate governance and behaviour at News Corp is simply unacceptable. Business-as-usual will entrench a 'governance discount' ...

Strong culture drives T. Rowe Price

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... before the sub-prime crisis. For example, Stromberg recalls that their debt analyst held a contrarian view about the quality of CDOs and sub-prime products that were coming into the market years before the Lehman collapse. He said it was again the company's ...

Dealer groups compete for planners: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... dealer groups are letting down planners in three key areas according to the report with technology and software support, quality of SOA and technology and software offering all listed as important to planners but under serviced by dealer groups," according ...

It's official, Rudd saved Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
It is being reported today that Treasury believe it was really former prime minister Kevin Rudd who saved Australia from the GFC and not the mining industry, but before we get too excited the analysis simply confirms that we don't just have a two-speed ...

AUI expands with property fund acquisitions

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... with access to a broad range of property funds in all the major property sectors, and will add to the diversity and quality of our existing property portfolio." Investa's chief executive and chairman, Scott MacDonald, said AUI was selected due to its ...

US pension funds issue debt ultimatum

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... jobs. "Ultimately and most painfully, economic growth for our nation will stall for years to come and diminish the quality of living across America. "All of this fallout will have a devastating impact on our portfolios."

HESTA forms new relationship with CommInsure

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... Anne-Marie Corboy, chief executive, HESTA. "This is a major win for the CommInsure team and is welcome recognition of the quality of our product and service offering. We are particularly excited to be launching a range of new service innovations to HESTA ...

Financial PDS' 'Shortened'

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... "The simplified PDS changes complement the Government's Future of Financial Advice reforms, which will improve the quality of financial advice provided to Australian investors," Shorten said. Importantly, platforms, multi-funds and pure risk products ...

Alpha adds BlackRock and QIC strategies

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... the long short strategy, which outperformed the S&P/ASX200 index by 13.42 per cent over the 12 months to May 31. "The quality of BlackRock's team, its global research capability, global trading platform and leading risk management capabilities were aspects ...