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Schroders casts net outside MSCI World

Financial advisers looking for a global equities fund with a twist should look no further than Schroders Global Active Value, a fund that invests in shares outside the traditional global benchmark MSCI World Index. Schroders chief executive, Greg Cooper ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
Just released ABS data on sales of new motor vehicles shows an increase in September in seasonally adjusted terms by 3.0 per cent over the August figure. However, sales are still 3 per cent below their level of a year ago. With the ABS tables it can ...

MapInfo plots the market's future

A mapping software group which enables banks in the US to forecast demand for financial services based on postcodes is making an aggressive push into Australia to provide similar software products to local banks and insurers. MapInfo has grown from ...

Australians clueless on super

The raft of education campaigns around superannuation are yet to make their impact on consumers after a new study found that 60 per cent of Australians don't know how much fees they pay on their super while 16 per cent couldn't name their own super ...

SERF awards MLIM $85m portable alpha mandate

The $1.5 billion Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund (SERF) has awarded Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) an $85 million institutional mandate to invest in a portable alpha strategy with a twist. Under the mandate, MLIM's US based portable ...

Five major banks spend six times more on ads than super sector

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
Bank spending on advertising for traditional, super and insurance products surged during the June 2006 quarter to its highest level in years, according to estimates compiled by AC Nielsen. The five largest banks spent an aggregate $45.5 million on print ...

Abacus Property to launch hotel fund

In the last 12 months diversified property fund manager Abacus Property Group has steadily built up hotel assets to the tune of $250 million ahead of a new hospitality fund to be launched later this year. "We are just finalising the structure of that ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
The market is expected to open lower today, following mixed overseas markets, as well as falls in precious metals and some base metals prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract had fallen 14 points to 4958 at 0758 ...

VIC and TAS region hungry for financial planners

A national recruitment firm has reported a staggering 80 per cent increase in financial planning job ads for the Melbourne, regional Victorian and Tasmanian regions in the last six months alone, twice the demand in Sydney and NSW. The data was released ...

CommInsure rolls out sweeping upgrades - free of charge

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2006
CommInsure yesterday set about breaking away from its peers with significant - and free - product upgrades, citing a commitment to further strategic change. Introducing the "Perfect Mix" round of upgrades to a room of financial advisers, Jeffrey Scott ...