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World's biggest fund eyes Aus resources

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
China's newly created state-owned investment company could soon start targeting Australian mining companies to shore up the country's resource supplies, according to AMP chief economist Shane Oliver. The company, created through a special one-off bond ...

ANZ eyes ING and maybe AMP

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
ANZ has signalled a desire to the Dutch-owned ING Group to move to outright ownership of the ING Australia joint venture, the Herald Sun reported on Saturday. ING, however, has refused to enter negotiations. A fresh attempt by ANZ is likely to close ...

ESS Super to apply UN investment principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
Victorian-based public sector fund ESS Super has joined the ranks of mega super funds AustralianSuper, UniSuper and ARIA when it signed up to the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment. ESS Super chief executive officer David Atkin said ...

Rate hike to launch dollar?

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
Higher inflation has proved too hot to handle for the Reserve Bank board who increased the cash rate by 25 basis points to 6.5 per cent - our highest cash rate since November 1996. Reserve Bank Governor, Glenn Stevens, highlighted that economic conditions ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... lifted energy shares in Tuesday's session. Financial shares rebounded after some initial disappointment that the Fed did not signal a rate cut as investors embraced the central bank's sanguine outlook. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 35.52 points ...

Never mind the length, look at the readability

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
Despite recent debate over PDS readability, 60 per cent of super fund members do read their PDS's, according to new research conducted by Investment Trends for the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA). In the research, investors who ...

Water's potential to float

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
... gas and electricity, 3.6 per cent alcohol and cigarettes and 5 per cent on furniture. Where Lee claims we "need a price signal to tell consumers to cut back usage," a CSIRO survey found that most higher income households would happily trade higher prices ...

Market freefall not a bear signal

The flight to quality began last week as global markets posted record share price falls but some fund managers saw the sea of red as a buying opportunity. BT Financial's general manager of investments, Dirk Morris, said that the fund added more global ...

Investor responsibility key to governance: Regnan

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
... are not reporting that risk to the people that own the company. "Workplace health and safety is relevant and is a useful signal in terms of their management quality and competency of companies, so for an informed market, we'd like that information available ...

Members treble personal contributions: Sunsuper

Sunsuper has announced its biggest year ever in contributions after members parked three times more of their own money into the fund during the year. The Queensland-based super fund has recorded more than $2.5 billion in total contributions for the ...