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AMP planners to use Lonsec and van Eyk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
AMP Financial Planning today announced van Eyk and Lonsec as its preferred independent research house partners. The announcement follows consultation with planners and a tender process. AMP Financial Planning managing director Michael Guggenheimer said ...

Hedge fund to overtake managed fund growth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... recover assets lost since 2007, but its year-on-year growth will be faster than that of the managed fund sector, new research shows. According to Cerulli Edge, global hedge fund assets will grow at a 12.1 per cent compound rate each year between 2009 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... Bathurst Resources Ltd and Magnetic Resources NL. The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey research conference concludes in Melbourne. On Thursday, a positive offshore lead and strong growth in China's economy saw the Australian ...

X-rays on APLs for Matrix advisers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... investment strategies and currency risk of products in their approved products list, as part of the dealer group's latest research tool upgrades. The new research tools identify approved products by underlying asset, investment strategy, currency risk ...

Better insurance tech from IRESS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... information to the adviser desktop. The initiative will allow advisers to confirm the premium returned by IRESS' risk research software with CommInsure, and receive a complete quote for the client. CommInsure is also launching a data feed service which ...

UN PRI gets tough and de-lists signatories

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... investors - but it takes time. "Companies are like oil tankers; they can't be turned around on a dime. I found from my research the best engagements took two or three years of prodding and persistence," he said. "It's also important to understand those ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... Territory Resources Ltd hold general meetings. Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) hosts a survey research conference in Melbourne. The Queensland Coal & Energy conference concludes in Brisbane. On Wednesday, resources and banking ...

Select hires advisory panel

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... fixed interest. "The combined expertise and extensive networks of the investment advisory panel leverages SELECT's own research and investment capacity and represents a significant benefit to our investors," said Dominic McCormick, chief investment officer ...

ASIC lifts restrictions on intra-fund advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... to do But the bigger truth is, the industry still has a long way to go in engaging the public. According to Rainmaker Research, more than 70 per cent of all super funds provide either bundled or unbundled financial advice. That is, millions of members ...

Volatility: a new asset class?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... one of our managers - to invest in what one could say is an emerging asset class," said Mugunthan Siva, head of manager research, multi-strategies group, ING Investment. "Besides, we're looking at ways to profit from volatility not just from the direction ...