Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1541 - 1550 of 2151 results for "AUD"

CAMAC recommends charitable trust audits

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
The Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC) has recommended that charitable trusts managed by licensed trustee companies (LTC) be audited in a new report. CAMAC's 'Administration of charitable trusts' report said that there is a deficit ...

Mercer tests the water of 'fair capitalism'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
An exploration of systemic changes and 'fairer capitalism' is needed encourage longer term, more sustainable investment according to a recent Mercer paper. "The growing call for capitalism to be 'fairer' or 'more sustainable' is not going away. In fact ...

Morphic global equities fund reaches $25m

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... 2012. The fund achieved returns of 2.8% in April, 2013, but it underperformed the MSCI All Countries Total Return Net Index in AUD benchmark by 0.52%. Addressed at first to Australian investors, the fund has just been made available to New Zealand investors ...

Tides to turn for Platinum: Neilson

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... over three years to 30 April 2013 (ranked 125/147 - bottom quartile), far below the MSCI World ex-Australia (net dividend, in AUD) gain of 5.62% over the same period. Neilson said the fund suffered partly due to its domestic currency strategy. "We were ...

Budget 2013-14 wrap up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
The headlines for the sector are that the superannuation changes announced on 5 April 2013 have been confirmed, the Medicare levy will increase by 0.5% from next year to offset the cost of National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), some future tax ...

SMSF growth slows on low super system confidence

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
A lack of confidence in the superannuation system is slowing the growth of the self-managed super fund (SMSF) market, according to Jordan George, technical development and policy manager at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). Speaking ...

Number of instos prioritising risk doubles since GFC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
The proportion of investment organisations placing risk management as their highest priority has more than doubled since before the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new research by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) commissioned by State Street ...

CareSuper releases direct investment option

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
CareSuper has issued a direct investment option within the fund as a response to the member's demand for more control over their investments. CareSuper's Direct Investment Option will allow members to invest across ASX300 companies and is seen as an ...

No decision yet on QIC sale

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
The government Queensland Commission of Audit Report recommendation that the Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) be privatised puts the spotlight on the significant funds management businesses that several state governments are now running. The ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... index has been below the 50 expansion/contraction mark. All because of the A$. Perhaps the RBA should do a BOJ and kill the AUD too. The G-20 wouldn't mind as long as it explains to them that, like Japan, its actions are directed at reviving the economy ...