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BlackRock to develop super SMA

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
BlackRock, one of the pioneers of separately managed accounts (SMA) in Australia, revealed plans to launch a superannuation version of its customised portfolio service next year. James Langlands, co-head of customised portfolio solutions at BlackRock ...

LGS appoints managers

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Local Government Super (LGS) has appointed a new risk manager and created a new 'sustainability manager' role. The super fund has appointed former Commonwealth Bank of Australia compliance expert Hannah Deukmejian as risk manager where she will be responsible ...

Commercial property sales rebound: CBRE

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Commercial property transactions above $5 million rebounded to $2.6 billion in the third quarter, up 268 per cent sequentially and up 75 per cent on last year, according to figures released by CB Richard Ellis. And while Australian super funds are dipping ...

Super tax breaks unaffordable: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Australia can't afford the rising and inequitable cost of superannuation tax concessions, said Treasury in its Red Book briefing to the returned ALP government. Each election, Treasury prepares a briefing folder for both the government should they be ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Looks like something's gone wonderfully wrong on Wall Street this month. This isn't the month to be jolly but with only two winks left before the seventh moon of 2010 is over, the US stock market is on course for its biggest September gain in 71 years. ...

Asia-Pac HNWI market approaches US$10 tn: report

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
The combined wealth of Asia-Pacific's high net worth individuals (HNWI) surged almost 31 per cent in 2009 to US$9.7 trillion, erasing the losses recorded in 2008 and placing the Asian market above Europe for the first time on record, a new survey has ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
We've been told that the US recession officially died 15 months ago and Wall Street, it seems, is no longer grieving. In fact, the S&P 500 index looks on track to claim its "biggest September gain in 71 years" - unless Bloomberg is mistaken, that is ...

Market Wrap - Midday

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
The Australian market was higher at noon, led by financial and materials stocks and positive offshore leads from the US and Asia. At 1210 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 68.9 points higher, or 1.5 per cent, at 4670.8 points, while the broader ...

Real return to balance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
Some of today's balanced funds have departed from the real meaning of a balanced strategy cultivated many years ago, preventing investors from moving nimbly between the various asset classes, said a fund manager. Greg Cooper, Schroder Investment Management ...

RBS develops ESG strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) joins the growing number of stockbroking and investment houses keen to develop a numerical strategy that can be used to better qualify an investment decision based on a company's ESG policies. Dr Alva De Voy, an equity strategist ...