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Asia marching on faster than expected

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
Growing intra-region trade within emerging markets is pushing Asia to the centre of world financial affairs faster than we realise. "Fifty per cent of all world trade now has an Asian leg," said Craig Weeks, senior vice president of global trade services ...

Telstra Super signs Charles River for direct portfolio management

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
Anyone needing more convincing that big super funds are evolving into investment managers should look at Telstra Super's deal to sign on with the Charles River Development portfolio management system. Established in 1990, Telstra Super has 90,000 members ...

RFM signs with InvestmentLink

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
Property trust manager Reed Funds Management (RFM) has signed a deal to distribute client account information to advisers through InvestmentLink's e-Portfolio data service. The agreement will increase RFM's distribution range to 9000 advisers nationwide ...

Pension age too low: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
Australia's ageing population means we should increase our pension age to 67 years, says a report released by the private sector think tank, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). The report, written by Dr David Knox, a partner ...

QIC invests in UK pure alpha fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
QIC has awarded a $250 million mandate to UK-based asset manager Henderson Global Investors' Global Equity multi-strategy fund. The fund is a pure alpha strategy using fundamental, liquidity, relative value and event driven strategies, with a yearly ...

Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
While recent downpours have seen Australian farm-export earnings forecasts raised by $900 million, storms have not been so kind to coal exporters, or to major commercial energy users who almost ran out of gas last week. It seems that Mother Nature has ...

Much ado over Northern Trust

Investment industry consultant Morse Consulting has thrown in a contrarian view on the emotive debate surrounding the Future Fund's decision to outsource its custodian needs to offshore player Northern Trust. "Some general media comment recently has ...

Super funds hunting grounds for criminals

Super funds are increasingly becoming the target of organised crime and white-collar fraudsters, according to Peter Morris, director of KPMG Forensic. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF), Morris said super funds are becoming ...

Trade faster than a speeding bullet: INSTINET

The time it takes to execute a trade is about to get 10 times faster and up to 90 per cent cheaper thanks to a new trading system from INSTINET, one of the largest brokers in the electronics market. Called INSTINET Chi-X, the product promises to set ...

Member investment arbitraging hits GESB: reports

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2006
Poor fund design will cost superannuation funds millions of dollars unless they start to upgrade their outdated or inadequate investment reporting systems. The latest fund to be impacted is the $6.3 billion GESB public sector super fund in WA, according ...