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Christian Super joins Government to seed community fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
Christian Super has teamed up with the Australian Government to provide financing for a new $20 million social enterprise investment fund. Brisbane based Foresters Community Finance will manage the Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF) ...

Super funds chase CPI linked assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... Watson. "These tend to be assets with strong linkage to CPI inflation that offer greater diversification of equity market risk, so pure infrastructure assets and higher quality real estate, like large regional shopping centres and very high quality CBD ...

BetaShares introduces gold ETF

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... volatility has continued. "Purchasing gold companies as a means to access the gold price introduces company and stock market risk. A hedged gold ETF is the most pure and simple way of gaining exposure to movements in the price of gold," said Corbett. ...

Annuities help combat longevity risk: Cooper

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
Jeremy Cooper, the newly appointed chair of Challenger Retirement Income, spoke at an adviser roadshow about the threats of longevity, inflation and market risks on retirement savings, raising concerns that most portfolios are too equities-focused in ...

Lessons from US pension funds in crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... severely underfunded even before the GFC hit, their funding gaps have been further compounded by taking on too much market risk. "Part of the current crisis for state pension funds is attributable to the fact that they invest in risky assets which have ...

Retirees brush off volatility to hold equities long term

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... toward shares. "This may imply that there is a role for planners to educate retiree clients on the true extent of market risk and its potential to undermine their investment objectives around income certainty and capital preservation," noted a Challenger ...

Investment managers gain fraud insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... customers. It covers the firm's responsibility to that customer to provide sound advice," said Dwyer. "It doesn't cover market risk." The firm's Investment Structures Insurance Solutions also provides very broad cover for internal employee related crime ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
What's wrong with Wall Street this time? There must be something in the water when solid corporate earnings result still gets it down. According to Bloomberg, more than 80 per cent of companies in the S&P 500 that have already reported their first quarter ...

Brand the top concern for finance industry

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... structure. The strong Australian dollar and rising interest rates - the results of a recovering economy - has led to market risk/treasury risk rising six positions this year. Paul Venning, national general manager of Aon Corporate Risk Services noted ...

Hartsuyker takes aim at govt reviews

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... resort' that would pay investors in failed schemes because it could distort how investors view investment products and market risk. Hartsuyker replaced Chris Pearce as shadow minister for consumer affairs, financial services, superannuation and corporate ...