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BT adds oil and gold to super portfolios

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... portfolio but added a two-and-a-half per cent allocation to Asian equities. The changes made exclude BT Business Super's default option, although they will be implemented across the BT Lifetime Super Employer Plan. BT Financial Group manages around $16 ...

Universal model tough to execute

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... Barr is also concerned about the issue of choice. He argues that many members currently exercise choice in their existing default funds. However, whether those same funds will continue to participate effectively in both the proposed "universal" and "choice" ...

Dubai games

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... making them sweat for almost three weeks. Financial markets cheered. And to borrow Bloomberg's headline, "Stocks Rise, Default Swaps, Dollar Drop Following Dubai Bailout". Maybe it's because of the silly season that financial markets acted the way they ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... billion) in emergency funds from its oil-rich neighbour, Abu Dhabi, helping to allay investor fears that the emirate might default on its debt. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed up 53.77 points, or 1.02 per cent, at 5,315.34. FRANKFURT ...

Members to benefit from standard risk labels: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... remain relatively unchanged, even accounting for inflation, over three or five years. The risk labels won't apply to the 'default option', as this is where the fund trustee has to factor in the risk of what happens to the member's account balance over ...

ASIC proposal exposes investors to default risk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
The regulator's proposed listed corporate bond market has been welcomed by the industry but one bond manager warned its timing could pose a risk to retail investors. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is proposing to develop ...

Still a lucky country: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... safe. "Investors need a lot more assurance than they did previously before increasing activity levels. The Dubai World default was a temporary blip but it's events like these that strike fear into investors and lead to paralysis in activity," he said ...

Super could post double-digit returns in 2010: research

Super funds could post double-digit returns next year after Rainmaker research found default investment options had recovered by three percentage points per month since Christmas last year. Rainmaker SelectingSuper research found superannuation default ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... told us A.I.G. and its creditors had to be bailed out because they posed a systemic risk, largely because of the credit default swaps portfolio. Those credit default swaps, by the way, are over the counter derivatives that the Fed did not want regulated. ...

Desert Storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... hurting won't heal. You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille." --Kenny Rogers Raise your hands those who saw the Dubai default coming? Given the global financial market's reaction to last week's Desert Storm, it would be safe to assume that the answer ...