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Economic round-up: Chinese whispers and inflation rumbles

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
Comments by former US Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, over China's "unsustainable" market weighed heavily on the Australian dollar yesterday, while the OECD flagged a threat to our inflation. On Wednesday Dr Greenspan, speaking by satellite ...

HOSTPLUS launches super sport campaign

Industry fund HOSTPLUS, which enjoyed an advertising coup last year with its sponsorship of NRL grand finalist Melbourne Storm, is to roll out another aggressive sports-themed campaign for this year. The new TV campaign will show a montage of different ...

Intangible fund a winning recipe: Macquarie

Amid the craze around growth type funds, global value fund Morgan Stanley Global Franchise has been forced to close its doors to new investors, proving too popular among financial planners. Up until this month Australia was the only country where new ...

ARIA awards Principal $400m mandate

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
Principal Global Investors' diversified fixed income Global Strategic Income Fund has been awarded a $400 million mandate from the Australian Reward Investment Alliance (ARIA). The fund focuses on diversified, high-yield fixed income securities and ...

Baby boomers not so super informed

Millions of Australians are missing out on the benefits of the new super legislation after a study found that 70 per cent of those who could take advantage of the reforms don't know the new rules exist. Mercer Wealth Solutions conducted a study in March ...

Maximise returns, don't follow ideology: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
Treasurer Peter Costello said the primary duty of super fund trustees is to maximise investment returns for members, not to impose ideological prohibitions on what they would prefer to invest their fund members' money in. "There is a place for people ...

Vision Super adds currency manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
Industry super fund Vision Super has appointed a second currency manager to its $900 million global equity portfolio, New York based FX Concepts. FX Concepts joins Bridgewater Associates in overseeing Vision Super's foreign currency exposures. Appointing ...

Party like it's 1983

Australian workers who took out super before 1983 have two months to consolidate their pre-1983 super accounts and save tens of thousands of dollars, according to a self managed super fund expert. Martin Murden, a director at Partners' Superannuation ...

Online savings with Suncorp

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
Suncorp yesterday launched its online Margin Trader tool, combining margin lending and share trading on one platform and potentially saving investors up to $6,000 a year thanks to online brokerage fee rebates. The first of its kind in Australia, Margin ...

ING set to ride structured credit wave

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
ING Investment Management (INGIM) has launched a new diversified, high-yield leveraged investments product - INGIM Global Yield Maximiser. The product intends to ride the wave of growth in structured credit in particular, and will invest in a range ...