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YBR's cash fund receives new ratings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
Yellow Brick Road's newly branded funds management business Smarter Money Investments has received two ratings for its Smarter Money Active Cash Fund. Australia Ratings, a new credit rating agency founded by former Standard & Poor's Managing director ...

Now where have I heard that before?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
Houston, we've got another one. Another one of those big falls on Wall Street - yup, those ones that almost always begs the question, is this the one (the start of a bigger correction) or another dip begging to be bought? This time it's the International ...

QIC takes stake in East West Link PPP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
QIC has become a major investor in the East West Link Stage 1 ("EWL") public-private partnership (PPP) toll road and tunnel project in Melbourne, after a consortium led by Capella Capital won the bid. Other members of the consortium included British ...

Young adults know very little about super

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
Young adults are 'unengaged' by and 'uninterested' in superannuation and most show no knowledge of even the most basic facts. That's according to a new survey of nearly a thousand 25-34 year olds by the Centre for International Finance and Regulation ...

Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
Last month's United Nations Climate Summit saw a flurry of announcements from some of the world's major institutional investors, ranging from pledges to divest from fossil fuels, to calls on governments to introduce carbon pricing. But how serious are ...

Coalition secures PUP support on FoFA vote

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
The Coalition defeated a Labor motion to disallow the changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation after it secured the support from Palmer United Party (PUP) and other crossbench Senators. Labor Senator Sam Dastiary's attempt to disallow ...

LGS rejects coal, tar sands

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Local Government Super (LGS) has announced it will be screening out companies that derive the majority of their revenue from coal or tar sands. In the most comprehensive fossil fuel screening policy adopted by a major super fund, LGS has included all ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Looks like Halloween has come early to Wall Street. Equity indices fell -- big time -- on 'The Street' right at the stroke of October. The Dow's down 1.4% (with Transport down 2.5%); the S&P 500 fell 1.3%; the Nasdaq's off 1.6% and the Russell 2000's ...

October h(a)unting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
an you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? The heebie-jeebies, that is, coz it's October. September maybe the month which, on average, is the worst month of the year but October - few and far between they may be - is the month of spectacular ...

Market Wrap AM

MARKET WRAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street after disappointing economic data, including a big drop in US consumer confidence. At 0810 AEST on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 33 points ...