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Lessons from US pension funds in crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
An academic paper that warns five US pension funds could run out of money in less than 10 years due to chronic underfunding and poor returns serves as a precautionary tale for local investors. In a paper published last August titled 'The Liabilities ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
The Australian stock market performed strongly on Monday morning, after a better performance by the US market at the end of last week. The market rose more than one per cent in morning trade before dropping back slightly to sit just under one per cent ...

AFA calls for top advisers

AFA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
Financial planning groups have until end of July to hand in their nominations for the 2010 AFA Adviser of the Year Award and the 2010 Rising Star of the Year Award by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA). The Adviser of the Year Award, sponsored ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher on Monday, after a positive finish on Wall Street and firmer oil and gold prices. At 0733 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index futures contract was up six points ...

Macquarie buys Rismark stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
Macquarie Funds Group has acquired a 53 per cent stake in Rismark, a Sydney-based residential real estate funds management and research group. MFG bought the shareholding for an undisclosed price. According to an ASX statement, MFG will provide Rismark ...

Singapore HNWs to pour funds into equities

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
Singapore-based fixed income fund managers could be on notice after research of local high net worth (HNW) investors found they're preparing to reallocate funds out of cash to equities and alternative investments. Datamonitor research found fixed income ...

Retirees brush off volatility to hold equities long term

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
Retirees might want less risk in their investment portfolios, but many tend to brush away recent market fluctuations to maintain a strong bias towards equities, new figures show. When asked whether market fluctuations have meant that retirees prefer ...

Liquidnet taps NZ market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
Liquidnet, a firm which provides a marketplace to facilitate institutional equities trading, is expanding its trading operations to include New Zealand listed securities. Liquidnet will commence trading of New Zealand equities next Tuesday, offering ...

AMP appoints Brenner to board

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
AMP has appointed Takeover Panel member and former ABN AMRO managing director of investment banking, Catherine Brenner, to the firm's board as a non-executive director. Brenner is a non-executive director of AMP Life, Coca Cola Amatil and Centennial ...

Going nowhere fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
Flatline. That's what you'll see when you look at Wall Street's pulse monitor this morning. I would be too if faced with the same old, same old daily boring stuff that financial market agents look at everyday. While we were sleeping, a raft of economic ...