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Cards for houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
Houses continue to burn in America. Yes Virgie, we learned yesterday that no one wanted to buy old houses (existing homes) in the States after the government stopped giving would-be homeowners free money. Last night, we found out that neither were they ...

Record inflows into legalsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
Non-employer contributions into legalsuper have increased by a record rate last year despite the halving of contribution caps and continued investment uncertainty, according to the fund. Reporting on the year ended 30 June, Andrew Proebstl, legalsuper ...

ClearView Wealth FUMA hits $3.1bn

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
Former CommInsure chief executive Simon Swanson makes his first appearance as managing director of ClearView Wealth Limited today, announcing the group's strong set of results following a company restructure and new focus. As of June 2010, the ClearView ...

Food security back on the radar

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
The news of BHP's recent bid for Potash Corp has brought the issue of investing in food security to the forefront, with CFSGAM, H3 Global and WLM Financial hot on the sector's trail. BHP made a $39 billion hostile bid for Potash Corp, a bid Potash later ...

AustralianSuper retains $1bn Concord mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
AustralianSuper's $1 billion Australian equities mandate with Concord Capital will remain in place following Invesco Australia's buyout of Concord, confirmed a senior investment executive at the $30 billion-plus industry fund. Peter Curtis, senior manager ...

AustralianSuper seizes infra leadership

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
Demand for more infrastructure investment creates huge investment opportunities for super funds, and AustralianSuper intends taking a leadership role. The fund has not only announced intentions to appoint four major investment team leaders, including ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
Horrendous! Terrible! Shockingly disappointing! These are just some of the adjectives the financial press quoting the analysts, quoting the economists, quoting the experts used to describe last night's disappointing US housing data. Latest figures from ...

Challenger back in the black, annuity sales trebles

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
Challenger Financial Services has staged a strong profit recovery during the year, buoyed by a record performance from its annuities business and a 22 per cent rise in gross assets under management to almost $24 billion. The group reported results this ...

Solid results for BT Wrap and Westpac

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
The BT Wrap/Asgard platform received $1 billion in inflows for the March quarter, while its parent company Westpac reported strong third quarter results with cash earnings of around $1.4 billion. According to the Westpac 2010 August Update and Pillar ...

China's $750bn pledge to clean tech aids sector

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
China's $750 billion investment toward clean technologies over the next decade will direct not just much-needed funding into the sector but make it more appealing to investors. Speaking at a one-day Deutsche Asset Management forum in Sydney this month ...