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Future Fund posts 1.81pc first quarter loss

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... 2007/08 year, means the fund returned -0.24 per cent over a 15 months period. Its target return is the Consumer Price Index plus 4.5 per cent over the long term. The Future Fund holds more than 56 per cent or $31 billion in cash, with global developed ...

Health Super CIO departs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... chief investment officer Brendon Shepherd is leaving the fund end of this year. Shepherd has been the CIO of the $7 billion-plus fund for over five years. A statement from the firm said that he is taking time off next year to spend with his young family. ...

Patience is a virtue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... brings fresh news that financial Armageddon is nigh. Yesterday's concerted action by 6 of the world's major central banks - plus the Peoples Bank of China - on top of prior cuts by the RBA and the Hongkong Monetary Authority, were followed by interest ...

Back to basics for property

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... property and the rest in cash. The underlying objective of the fund is to generate traditional property returns of income plus capital growth. Este pegged the mix as "the best trade off between risk and return". "We did some work with Intech, [with] ...

DB back in vogue: Equipsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... number of requests for more information on transferring from DB to accumulation schemes. "In the heady days of 20 per cent-plus returns from equity markets, some defined benefit members felt they might be missing out, but the experience of the past twelve ...

Synchron attracts 50 young professionals

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... issues and present solutions to the conference attendees. Among the conference speakers are Michael Harrison from Strategies Plus and Nicki Heald from Corptraining. Acquiring new prospects, converting prospects to clients and client retention number ...

America on its knees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... of the overnight events. "The recent events only prove that the Fed's bailout of Bear Sterns and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac - plus AIG -- had only delayed the eventual cleansing of the financial system. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) has ...

Vanguard saves $5m in trading costs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... Australia adopted the practice back in 2000 and other major fund managers also adopt a similar approach. But what the $5 million-plus savings highlight, said Alcock, is that there's real money to be made simply by arranging a transaction on certain dates. ...

Perennial's global alpha secret

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... strategy. Prior to that, he managed the US, European and UK global portfolios at QBE for more than five years. Carter's 25-year plus industry experience shone through at Perennial. Over the two years to 31 July, the fund lost 1.23 per cent, a mere fifth ...

NAB Group Super axes cash plus

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
NAB Group Super has morphed its cash plus option into a pure cash option - closing the strategy's previous exposure to fixed interest, Australian shares and property. The board Trustee's decision to change the corporate fund's cash plus option into ...