S&P Assigns Ratings To Various Sibling Funds For BT Platforms

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today assigned ratings to various sibling funds managed by a range of fund managers. These sibling funds relate to headline funds available on BT platforms

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S&P Assigns Three-Star Rating To BT European Share Wholesale Fund

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today assigned its three-star rating to the BT European Share W fund, which is managed by MFS International (U.K.) Ltd. Relative performance has been good since

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Investor rights a welcome initiative

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Industry and planners back new benchmarks Centuria Property Funds has received overwhelming support from industry and financial planning groups following the introduction of a series of initiatives to increase the

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CommSec: Petrol set to fall as global oil price slides

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Weekly petrol prices According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of unleaded petrol rose by 1.1 cents per litre to 140.2 cents a litre in

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Trustees and advisers making a mountain out of a collectables molehill

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Specialist self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) education and training provider, The SMSF Academy, says the industry is over-reacting to draft regulations being considered for collectable investments within SMSFs.   “Concerns have

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Gold stocks falling short on returns

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Most of the gold stocks in Australia’s gold mining index returned less than the gold price over the last three years according to E.I.M. Capital Managers. Many investors buy gold

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Zenith investing in research team

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Zenith Investment Partners (Zenith) cofounder and Director David Wright today announced the expansion of its research team with the appointment of Bronwen Moncrieff as Senior Investment Analyst within the asset

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CommSec: China’s inflation dragon is being tamed

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Chinese economic data Inflation still creeping higher. China’s annual inflation rate rose from 5.3 per cent to a 34-month high of 5.5 per cent in May. But the result was

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Investor rights should come first, says manager

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Calls for new management benchmarks for unlisted property Until some of the poor management behaviour endemic among unlisted property funds is addressed at the individual fund level, the sector will

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Zurich sells Lonsec to Financial Research Holdings

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Financial Research Holdings and Zurich today announced the sale of Zurich subsidiary Lonsec Limited, a leading research and stock broking business, to Financial Research Holdings. x A spokesman for Financial

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