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Financial Planning

SSgA launches Global Total Equity Returns in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
Harnessing investor appetite for products focusing on risk management, State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) is launching their Global Equity Total Return product into the Australian market.

ABN-AMRO launches GLO-MAX

ABN AMRO has expanded its range of structured products with GLO-MAX, designed for investors who want capital protection with their international investments.

Vanguard arms investors with Plain Talk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
Index manager Vanguard joins the growing list of investment companies championing investor financial literacy when it launched a line of educational materials based on their popular Plain Talk Guide format.

SG Hiscock and Stockland win PIR awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
SG Hiscock & Company and the 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.

IAS gathers momentum

Managed accounts administrator Investment Administration Services (IAS) announced it had over $1.5 billion in funds under administration (FUA) only two years since launch.

RaboPlus cuts entry fee to 25bp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
RaboPlus, one of the younger entrants to the local managed fund market, is to give investors an early Christmas bonus when it reduced its entry fee by 50 basis points to 0.25 per cent until the end of the year.

Directors face prison term for lack of disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Two Australian-listed company directors have been slapped with three-year jail terms for using offshore accounts to illegally hide their shareholdings in the business.

Global LPT defies credit gloom

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Amid the US sub-prime crisis, the global listed property sector has remained buoyant and continues to grow in Asia, according to ING Clarion.

ESG funds pip mainstream

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Funds that systematically factor in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are achieving better returns and grew at twice the rate of their mainstream counterparts, according to a new report.

Challenger FP model pays dividends

Eight months after a business restructure, Challenger Financial Planning chief executive Greg Kirk said the group's new business model has worked wonders.