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IFSA get set to push product rationalisation

Product rationalisation is high on the agenda for IFSA next year, with estimates that if the reforms it suggests are successful it will save the industry between $120 million and $350 million a year in compliance costs. IFSA's December 2005 report outlines ...

Future Fund open to alternatives

... to conflicting views about the risk, return and transparency characteristics of the industry. Ivey said AIMA will hold a forum next year designed to address just that and debunk commonly held misconceptions.

Increase your weight in gold

... gold-mining shares. The van Eyk recommendation follows the same recommendation from the SELECT Asset Management investment forum where investment manager Baker Steel Capital Partners outlined their reasoning behind why they believe the bull market for ...

Gold bull market set to continue: Baker Steel

... co-founder of gold specialist manager Baker Steel Capital Managers, speaking at the Select Asset Management hedge funds forum this week, said "[for gold] its an exciting period having just broken out of a 23 year consolidation. The fundamentals are compelling ...

Government steps up financial literacy campaign

The Financial Literacy Forum together with the Federal Government has stepped up its $41 million financial literacy campaign adopting a more coordinated approach to help Australians improve their financial skills. The campaign was part of the Financial ...

Host-Plus accepts undertaking from ASIC

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has accepted an enforceable undertaking from the trustee of the Host-Plus superannuation fund, Host-Plus Pty Ltd (Host-Plus). The enforceable undertaking relates to future projections outlined in ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2005
... central bank to retain its tightening bias. Also today the ANZ job ads report for July is expected and the Diggers and Dealers Forum opens in Kalgoorlie.

Investors need to widen the asset horizon

... consider how to effectively diversify risk in a portfolio says Schroders portfolio manager Simon Doyle. Speaking at a Skandia forum for paraplanners today Doyle says that while the allocation to bonds and equities served us well in the 1990s, a lower ...

Finance Industry Council of Australia formed

... higher level responses to the major issues affecting the financial services arena. Moreover the new body intends to provide a forum to develop research and ideas including presenting related papers, eliminate policy overlap among industry groups, and ...

Future Fund will not inflate asset prices

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2005
... asset values to unjustified levels, were misplaced. Speaking at an AMP Financial Executives International of Australian forum Dr Oliver said, just as compulsory superannuation did not push up asset prices to inflated levels, it was doubtful the smaller ...