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Future Fund 'under-resourced' on climate risks

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... constraints." Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) Chair Dr John Hewson and former leader of the Liberal Party said: "It is quite extra-ordinary that Australia's largest fund which will have to supply pension liabilities over the long-term has decided ...

IQPC conference tackles operational risk

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... money laundering case and the Libor rate-fixing scandal have highlighted the need for financial service providers to be extra vigilant in ensuring they take operational and regulatory risk seriously. However, finance professionals tend to think of risk ...

ECT assessments down 38%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
The number of excess contribution tax (ECT) assessments fell 38%, according preliminary data from the ATO. In 2009-10, the number of ECT assessments peaked at 49,786, but in 2010-11 this number had dropped to 31,217, the ATO reported. This fall in ECT ...

Trilogy takeover attempt piracy: LM

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
An attempt by Trilogy Funds Management (Trilogy) to replace LM Investment Management Ltd (LM) as Manager of two LM feeder funds is opportunistic, hostile and without any consideration of investors' interests. This was the underlying sentiment within ...

Overseas investors' demand replacement of LM as RE

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
Unitholders in a group of mortgage funds - plus a significant number of overseas investors - want to replace the Gold Coast-based LM Investment Management (LM) with Trilogy Funds Management Limited (Trilogy) as the Responsible Entity (RE). LM is the ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
They just won't stop coming, do they? Yes them, the bad news. This time it came courtesy of the World Bank (WB). The WB went on a chopping spree - slashing its growth outlook for the Asia and the Pacific region to 7.2% this year and 7.6% in 2013 - down ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... for a 115,000 gain in the month. Better, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised its estimate of employment for July (up an extra 40,000) and August (up 46,000) higher for a net increase of 86,000. Nay, it was so good, that you could almost picture the ...

NFL dispute over 401(k) touches down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... expected to be ratified this weekend, serving referees will have their entitlements frozen in the pension plan but will receive extra matching contributions towards their new 401(k) plan. New referees will, however be required to join the 401(k) without ...

The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... 2010. It took 17 days for the S&P 500 index to consolidate and bottom after the Fed announced QE2. We're now on day 16. The extra liquidity created and the fresh mints that are yet to be printed will certainly need to find a home. And somehow I don't ...

Enduring baby boomers redefine retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... The question for people servicing and providing services to these people, says Salt is what retirees will do with all this extra time? "What are [they] going to do? Sit at home and look after the grandkids or re-engineer [their] lifestyle?" Salt ponders. ...