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Volatility fails to dampen super returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... was Telstra Super's balanced option, which delivered 16.3 per cent over three years. Rainmaker associate director of research, Andrew Keevers, said the strength of the performances continued to be driven by the Australian share market and property sectors. ...

Mortgage stress hits record levels

... payments or in the process of forced sale, following the rate hike and assuming another one in the New Year. Fujitsu's research also found there are now 83,000 households living day-to-day on their credit cards, up by 19 per cent from the September survey. ...

Fin planning uptake doubles

MICHAEL HOBBS, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... across their entire portfolio once they've established trust, which could take a couple of years or so, according to their research. The survey also found that "pricing and fees" ranked further down the client's priority list when it comes to choosing ...

First Home Saver proposal a winner

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... not however restricted to only industry funds. Illustrating how popular the savings scheme could be, max Super said, "Research by maxsuper.com.au in August 2007 through the popular social network website Facebook, also proved supportive with two-thirds ...

Sustainable audits need more structure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
... auditing law that will come into effect next year, according to a new study. A joint Jones Lang LaSalle and CoreNet Global research study found only one in five Australian corporations currently met the required level of sustainability reporting, and ...

Morningstar scores top ratings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
US-based investment data researcher Advisor Perspectives has found Morningstar's mutual fund rating system scores highly on rating bonds but not so much on international equities. Advisor Perspective did three separate studies, done in conjunction with ...

That four-letter word

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... spending more that 10 per cent of their after tax incomes on interest bills. These findings come on top of the recent Galaxy Research Australian Debt Survey September 2007 that found four in five Australians are worried about their ability to pay their ...

All about Eve

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
... and within 20 years, 60 per cent of the world's wealth will be managed by women. The global study is supported by local research from Veda Advantage (formerly known as Baycorp), which facilitates credit reference checks for Australia's major banks and ...

Integrity opens to retail

... other former senior staff at UBS namely portfolio manager and analyst Shawn Burns and Marcus Truman, former UBS head of research John Moran in a similar role, and chief operating officer Karen Thompson. Michelle Baltazar

Rocketing small caps slow big cap funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
... the last three years has dragged down a large cap manager's performance relative to the index, according to data from research software provider Inalytics. The discovery came when a UK pension fund client asked Inalytics to evaluate a portfolio of an ...