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AFS launches business school

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2007
The Australian Financial Planners Services Group (AFS) has announced plans to open a business school allowing financial planners to grow their skills in running their operations. Beginning in October, the school will offer no financial planning strategy ...

CSRF doubles international equity holding

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) has announced it will double its emerging market holdings in international equities after a portfolio re-weighting. The move will take its exposure from 3 to 6 per cent in international equities ...

Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
While recent downpours have seen Australian farm-export earnings forecasts raised by $900 million, storms have not been so kind to coal exporters, or to major commercial energy users who almost ran out of gas last week. It seems that Mother Nature has ...

HLB Mann Judd national strategy remains unchanged

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2007
It is business as usual for HLB Mann Judd in most Australian States, following the sale of the HLB Mann Judd financial planning business in Victoria to Bridgeport last week. HLB Mann Judd National Association chairman, John Biddle, was keen to point ...

Planners should not face criminal charges: FPA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is arguing for the removal of criminal sanctions for advisers who fail to provide disclosure to clients, claiming the current regime is "excessive, unjust and contributes to fear and uncertainty". In a submission ...

HESTA joins better research alliance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
Industry fund HESTA has joined the Enhanced Analytics Initiative (EAI), an international collaboration that rewards analysts and brokers for greater depth and breadth of research and the inclusion of factors such as corporate governance, human capital ...

Stand by one manager: T Rowe Price

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
Generating alpha in the current global equities market meant employing only one manager per portfolio and conducting a lot of research into bottlenecks, according to visiting T Rowe Price vice president, Darrell Riley. Speaking at the Financial Standard ...

AXA boosts profits, broadens Asian market reach

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
AXA chairman Rick Allert announced a 25 per cent jump in net profits, increases in capital and investment earnings and the acquisition of Winterthur Hong Kong at AXA's AGM last week. Net profit was up from $542.4 million in 2005 to $677.8 million in ...

HFA absolute return fund approved by S&P

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
HFA's Octane Global Fund has been rated 'investment grade' by Standard & Poor's. S&P fund analyst, Simon Scott, said the the gearing and long-short strategy of the HFA Octane Global Fund meant only investors with a sound understanding of this type of ...

Challenger buys into Homeloans

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
Perth based home loan originator and funder Homeloans Limited has found itself a long-term business partner and investor in the form of Challenger Financial Services Group. The two companies announced on Friday that Challenger would invest in two stages. ...