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Asset consultants change fee model: Deloitte

... 'fixed fee' for service model to asset-based fees in the face of falling margins and talent shortages, according to new research from Deloitte. The Deloitte survey found that traditional asset consultants are moving their clients from fixed fee retainers ...

SSgA launches Global Total Equity Returns in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
... of global equities at SSgA in Boston, said the new product is based upon strategies developed in Australia by the SSgA research team. "The focus is on total risk rather than relative risk. It contains some sector constraints but they are not very binding." ...

Goldman Sachs appoints senior investment manager

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
... portfolio manager for AMP Capital's $2.5 billion Sustainable Future Australian Share fund for four years. He was also a research analyst and equities portfolio manager at William Noll and Tolhurst Noll. GSJBWAM chief investment officer, Andrew Cooke ...

Vanguard arms investors with Plain Talk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
... expect." Robin Bowerman, principal and head of retail at Vanguard, said the guides were produced in response to their own research and the one conducted by the Financial Literacy Foundation, which found many Australians are not confident with the different ...

SG Hiscock and Stockland win PIR awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
... Stockland Trust Group have taken out the awards for Australia's best property managers at the annual Property Investment Research forum dinner held earlier this week. SG Hiscock & Company received the award for best Property Securities Fund Manager of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
... strong technology sector, buoyed by strong profit results from Apple and a Chinese distribution deal for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. Broader market gains were limited by disappointing news from retailers. The Dow Jones industrial average lifted ...

ESG funds pip mainstream

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... achieving better returns and grew at twice the rate of their mainstream counterparts, according to a new report. The latest research from Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) has shown that the 'responsible investing' sector has grown ...

Industry funds on top again

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... master trusts over one, three and five years, continuing a now too familiar trend, according to the latest Rainmaker research. Research undertaken for the Industry Super Network by Rainmaker stated investors in industry fund growth options would have ...

Share trading reforms to lower transaction costs: ITG

... generate as much as $10 million of savings a year. ITG, a US-listed technology-based trading services and transactions research firm with an Australian subsidiary, has signed up more than 20 Australian fund managers to its POSIT Alert equities crossing ...

The $10 million sustainable punt

... six months ago. The $5-billion plus fund is one of the eight cornerstone investors of Regnan, a Sydney-based governance research house spun off BT Financial's sustainable investing arm. In June this year, Regnan received a $50 billion engagement mandate ...