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African bourse on the rise

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... Electricity Generating Company (KENGEN) Public Infrastructure Bond Offer (PIBO) last November, which raised Kshs. 25 billion (AUD$350 million). This was the first listed bond traded through the country's automated trading platform (ATS) that was launched ...

CFS GAM appoints ASSET4

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) has appointed ASSET4 as an additional environment, social and governance (ESG) research provider. ASSET4, which was bought by Thomson Reuters in November last year, has developed the world's largest ...

Accounting bodies launch SMSF learning tool

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
CPA Australia has teamed up with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and the National Institute of Accountants to develop a free online training tool for SMSF trustees. The tool, Self Managed Superannuation Fund Trustee Education Program ...

Alaska SWF tips $1bn into investments

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
Sovereign wealth fund (SWF) Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) has poured over $1 billion into various global fund managers following an investment meeting in December. The SWF gave $250 million to Oaktree Capital Management and Audax Management ...

IFSA blasts latest APRA league tables

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
IFSA has dismissed the APRA 'whole of fund' return on assets metrics as misleading, confusing and irrelevant for most members. "IFSA has rejected the APRA superannuation fund data... and its use in superannuation comparisons," they said in a statement. ...

Asset consultants under fee pressures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
Leading asset consultants were grilled about the value they add to super fund portfolios at an industry conference held yesterday. The results? Refreshingly honest. The heads of four asset consultancies - JANA, Frontier, Towers Watson and Sovereign ...

SMSFs breach less ATO rules

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
Self managed super fund trustees are heeding the Australian Taxation Office's warning about breaching fund rules, but ongoing problems - including giving personal loans to members - continue to plague the sector. According to the latest Partners Superannuation ...

Man charged in multi-million dollar fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
Bandidos, a former J.P.Morgan employee and a multi-million dollar swindle of the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme - one man has so far pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge in a $150 million bank fraud case. According to reports from the Sydney ...

Treasury proposes mandatory governance principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
Treasury is examining whether the ASX's corporate governance principles should extend to all 500 companies in the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Index instead of the top 300 companies as part of a broader review of the audit industry. The Commonwealth Treasury's ...

Future Fund behind Azerbaijan on transparency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
The sovereign wealth fund transparency index has found that Australia's $66 billion Future Fund is slightly less transparent than SWFs of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), New Zealand and Azerbaijan. The SWF Institute has developed the Linaburg-Maduell ...