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Aviva removes CGT liability from platform migration

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2006
In response to widespread concerns about CGT realisation when migrating funds, Aviva has announced that from tomorrow advisers will be able to transfer client investments from Navigator Access to the full-featured Navigator platform without triggering ...

Party like it's 1999: Allianz Global

The predicted slowdown of global economic growth will focus attention back towards stocks which have been out of favour since the 1999 stockmarket bubble, according to RCM (UK), the Allianz Global Investors-owned equities specialist. Lucy MacDonald ...

Active extension moves into Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
Investors looking to boost alpha while still constraining risk are looking to active extension investing. Active extension investing is when a portfolio manager operates their fund according to a fixed ratio of long versus short investing and where ...

Low cost to full service is possible

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
Demonstrating how it is possible for a manufacturer of low priced financial products to evolve into a full service client centre, Aussie Home Loans is to embark on a marketing campaign designed to show consumers they are not just a source of cheap loans. ...

FPA should lead not follow: Bloch

The Financial Planning Association's (FPA) chief executive, Jo-Anne Bloch, has called on FPA members to lead the debate on the challenges facing the industry in her opening address at the annual FPA conference today. "We need to lead the debate instead ...

Diversify out of Aust equities: van Eyk

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
On the back of recent research, van Eyk has warned planners they should be rebalancing their clients' portfolios away from Australian equities while they will need to search harder for local managers who are actually able to add value. Dr Jerome Lander ...

Anti-phishing industry code needed

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
Banks may have to abandon email as a customer communication method unless an industry-wide code of practice for electronic communications is designed. Neil Campbell, chief executive officer of network security firm Network Box, said it is unfair of ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2006
The meeting of G20 members in Melbourne has raised the perception that continued rising global interest rates may help abate world inflationary pressures being brought about by the increasing industrialisation of many developing economies. The IMF has ...

Capacity starting to bite Down Under

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2006
Capacity constraints are starting to eat into Australian investment opportunities, according to Simon Ibbetson, S&P's director, investment consulting. Ibbetson said that the sheer weight of money pouring into investment markets from super funds was ...

Bravura IT signs BNY deal

Bravura Solutions' business story may not be tagged as one of Australia's best export stories just yet but it comes very close after it signed a Bank of New York software deal that made it the IT backbone behind $750 billion in funds under administration ...