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Last call for your say on law change

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... by domestically-based investment managers. The Melbourne Financial Services Symposium last month issued statements saying huge opportunities for global portfolio asset management would arise as Australian superannuation funds and wealth platforms grew ...

Infra asset demand buoy CFS GAM and RARE

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... electricity transmission. "Market imbalances geographically between where energy is sourced and where it needs to go are huge so there is big scope to build energy storage, the importance of which is highlighted by a crisis such as that in Japan," said ...

Share plummet overplayed - fund managers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... for global growth despite the dramatic fall in global share prices sparked by the threat of nuclear catastrophe in Japan. A huge market sell off occurred yesterday afternoon when another explosion hit a Fukishima nuclear plant, heightening the human ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... world's third largest economy is serious but the markets are uncertain about how long lasting will it be and whether Japan's huge reconstruction effort expected later in the year will spark a revival. Sentiment was already under pressure from violence ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... steadily since September. LONDON - European and Asian equities slid and the safe-haven yen rose in volatile trade Friday after a huge earthquake in Japan, the world's third-largest economy, as dealers also tracked a eurozone summit and unrest in the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... disappointing data. "The market was anticipating some softness, given the floods in January," Mr Gibbs said. "It hasn't had a huge impact, but the currency is softer." Also on Wednesday, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment fell ...

ASFA ushers year of e-commerce

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
Electronic commerce for Australia's trillion dollar superannuation industry is now firmly in the sights of ASFA 's electronic commerce policy subcommittee. Driving the strategy is Graham Sammells, chief executive of the IQ Business group, who has just ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... cent of GDP -- by a wide margin." And where would talks of fiscal deficits and government debts be without the United States huge fiscal deficit - CBO estimates a fiscal deficit of US$1,500,000,000,000 this year - and Japan's mammoth national debt - ...

Mobile internet tools take flight

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... 35 per cent of the global total for tablets and other lite OS devices. This will be up from 20 per cent last year. "This huge growth in shipments will be dominated by tablet-style technologies such as the iPad and will mainly be driven by consumers buying ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... you look at the demand that will be created from the floods, it will be quite outstanding - demand for electrical goods, a huge demand for infrastructure replacement. "You'll have a massive employment squeeze, so people will be needed for both the mines ...