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Deutsche Bank restructures

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
Deutsche Bank has created a new integrated Asset & Wealth Management division at the global level, calling the unit an "essential part" of the universal banking model and effectively curtailing earlier speculation it was up for sale. The new division's ...

VicSuper and Vision Super in merger talks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
Vision Super has begun talks regarding a potential merger with VicSuper following the collapse in May of its planned merger with Equipsuper. Barbra Norris, VicSuper chairperson, said there was strong alignment between the two funds particularly in terms ...

CEO bonuses tumbled in 2011

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
The top ASX 100 CEO bonuses fell significantly in 2011 due to more mature conversations on executive pay between boards and investors. The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' (ACSI) 11th annual research report on CEO pay in Australia's largest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open flat despite falls on Wall Street overnight as euphoria over the Federal Reserve's new QE3 stimulus fade amid concerns about weakness in US manufacturing and anti-American unrest in the Middle East. At ...

Why QE3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
Uh-oh, I think I made a boo-boo. Two gentle readers wrote to express their disagreement with the musings I wrote on this column yesterday - yes, the one where I said "QE3 will work," just as QE1 and QE2 did. In case you missed it, you can read it here ...

ISN calls for fast trading moratorium

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
High frequency trading has the ability to impact long term investors such as superannuation funds and there should be a moratorium in the Australian financial markets on using the systems, said Industry Super Network (ISN). ISN's suggestion is part ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
Australian stocks have opened marginally firmer, with strong gains among resources-related companies offset by weakness in defensive market sectors such as healthcare and utilities. At 1028 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 3.5 points ...

Super fees are falling but only just

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... $47bn per year, which is about 4% of GDP or more than twice the national defence budget. "Workplace fund total expense ratios (TER) were found to average 1.38%, personal fund TERs 2.01%, retirement fund TERs 1.84%, ERFs 2.68% with TERs for SMSFs at just ...

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
"Is QE3 enough to save America's economy?" The Economist magazine posed this question to its readers over the weekend. So far, the nays have it - 78% of them think QE won't cut it - because according to those who commented: even Bernanke admitted that ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
Australian stocks have opened more than one per cent higher after the US Federal Reserve's announced stimulus measures led to shares soaring on Wall Street. At 1019 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 47.1 points, or 1.09 per cent ...