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van Eyk adds UBS-HALO to the Blueprint Australian Shares Fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... and industry analysis, as well as its investment discipline. The fund is guided by fundamental bottom-up research with a focus on long-term cash flows and seeks to capitalise on the discrepancies between market prices and a stock's intrinsic value. "They ...

ANZ profit climbs 19% to $5.36 billion

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... ANZ has recorded positive growth of 19% putting its full year statutory profit at $5.36 billion, with the bank's strategic focus on its Asian and institutional divisions. ANZ's underlying profit was up 12% to $5.65 billion for the financial year ending ...

IMAs not a product but a business model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
Managed accounts should not be viewed as yet another product but a whole new business model that could help make advisers future-proof, according to Financial Simplicity's Stuart Holdsworth. Holdsworth said managed accounts, and especially individually ...

Matrix continues planning member expansion

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
Independent Newcastle-based planning firm, PSI Investments, has joined Matrix Planning Solutions as a new member firm just two weeks after it signed a Sydney firm. PSI Investments was established over 20 years ago as part of the broader PSI Group and ...

BTIM adds $50m mandate to $6bn fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
BT Investment Management has attracted a $50 million mandate into its $6 billion balanced fund as it continues to pitch itself as a single manager to clients. Emilio Gonzalez, chief executive officer, BT Investment Management (BTIM), told Financial ...

BTIM fixed focus for new financial year

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... final fully franked dividend of 10.0 cents per share, 3% up from last year. For the year ahead, Gonzalez said BTIM will focus on growing its exposure to the wholesale channel and leverage its competitive advantage from being part of The Westpac Group. ...

Macquarie posts mixed results

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... BFS said it expects its March 31 results for next year to be in line with the previous year, while it will continue its focus on acquisition and partnership opportunities. Macquarie Group downgraded its 2012 forecast due to volatility after posting a ...

Outsourcing FM admin doesn't reduce staff

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... deliver. "The report has shown that while 75% of fund managers choose to outsource their investment operations to allow them to focus on their current core business, the majority retain additional internal staff to implement customised system requirements ...

Funds should target retirement income not returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... of money before the end of their life. Cooper said a major flaw in most super funds is they are structurally designed to focus on headline investment returns rather than the end-game of retirement income. Alternative approaches could be to design funds ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher following Wall Street's trading more than one per cent higher and after local shares rose on Wednesday. At 0840 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up 27 points ...