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S&P and ASX launch Aussie "fear index"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Standard & Poor's and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) have launched an Australian version of the "VIX" volatility index, colloquially referred to as the gauge of fear on Wall Street. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX index will measure the expected volatility ...

Future Fund rebounds

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Excluding its holdings in Telstra, the Future Fund posted a 10.6 per cent return in the year to 30 June, compared to a decline of 4.2 per cent in the preceding year, according to a portfolio update. The fund's total assets stood at $67.3 billion, compared ...

PIMCO Aus adds investment specialist

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
PIMCO Australia has appointed a new investment specialist to service the retail market. Michael Dale has joined the asset manager from Suncorp Metway where he served as a treasury dealer in the insurance house's fixed interest/money market sales team. ...

Super back in the spotlight

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
After being largely overlooked during the election campaign and in the scramble to form government, Resources Minister Martin Ferguson has put superannuation policy firmly back in the political spotlight. The Minister called on mining companies and ...

Bidding time for AMP

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
With NAB bowing out of the race for AXA APH last week, planners and investors are nervously awaiting AMP's next move. It was AMP after all, which fired the opening salvo in the race for AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH) with its original bid for the ...

Seeking alpha in EM small caps

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
One way investors can make better returns through their emerging markets mandates is by refining them down to the small caps sector, say experts. Investors should by now be familiar with the anticipated shift of emerging market economies, as they mature ...

A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... embroiled in a race to the bottom are real. "Clearly most central banks are expressing a desire for a weaker currency," said John Horner, foreign exchange strategist at Deutsche Bank in Sydney. Yesterday, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand issued a surprisingly ...

Club Plus Super offers planning, opens fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
As part of a broader strategy to strengthen its market position, industry super fund ClubPlus Super has launched a personal financial planning service and has opened its doors to the wider community by becoming a public offer fund. While there has been ...

Unions threaten strikes with BBC pension reforms looming

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010

SG Hiscock wins $500 million AREIT mandate from Challenger

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... question are the Challenger Premier Property Securities Fund and the Challenger Wholesale Property Fund, previously managed by John Longo who will subsequently be leaving Challenger. Longo's departure follows that of John White, former co-portfolio manager ...