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Financial planning

21 January 2007

Financial bureaucrat numbers continue to climb

Despite ongoing increases in government staffing numbers across various sectors, including finance, the public is not seeing any increase in the level of service it recei...

Funds management

16 January 2007

Opportunism key for Challenger funds management

Co-manufacturing of investment products and the formation of new strategic partnerships with boutique fund managers will play a key role in Challenger’s efforts this year...

Financial planning

15 January 2007

Australian managed funds world beaters

Australian managed fund balances rose by almost 14 per cent in 2006, with an average of just under $50,000, trouncing our nearest rival the United States, which grew by o...

Financial planning

14 January 2007

New small cap manager with large cap research ability

Applying traditional large cap modelling processes to the small cap sector is the competitive raison d’etre of emerging small cap boutique Indian Ocean Rim Asset Manageme...

Financial planning

11 January 2007

Migrants’ money at risk in foreign exchange transactions

New migrants to Australia potentially wasted hundreds of millions of dollars during the past year in poor foreign exchange transactions and bank charges incurred through ...

Funds management

10 January 2007

REIT outperformance lulls investors into false confidence

Last year’s outperformance of the traditionally defensive yield investments, real estate investment trusts and infrastructure, could lead to carelessness on the part of i...

Funds management

8 January 2007

MLC increases global property exposure

Citing a shrinking pool of securitisation opportunities in the Australian market and the growing attraction of property trusts in international markets, MLC has increased...

Financial planning

7 January 2007

Top 10 investment risks spelt out

Some of the top investment risks have been identified in a list compiled by accounting association CPA Australia, with inflation, legislative change, interest rates, curr...

Financial planning

14 December 2006

Life risk education goes online

In a first for the finance industry, The Risk Store has launched what it calls a ‘webinar’ series covering life risk insurance....

Financial planning

13 December 2006

Strategy over product drives good planning

A strong belief in the value of strategy advice rather than product advice, combined with a passion for managing clients’ financial affairs in a proactive manner, helped ...