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AustralianSuper merges investment options

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
AustralianSuper is closing three investment options and replacing them with two as part of a streamlining process aiming to keep costs low and refocus the fund's investment efforts. The industry super fund will close its Australian Fixed Interest, International ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Aren't you glad I didn't lift? This must be what's in Janet's head as she scours the global economic and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
"I got chills, they're multiplying." Risks are again off the table as the bad news flow keeps on flowing. Most of them we already know and some are just coming to the fore. The uncertainty over the "when" of the Fed's first step towards policy normalisation. ...

University investment portfolio includes tobacco and beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
British American Tobacco has landed among Sydney University's top international shareholdings in emerging markets as a balance is being sought in the university's environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment framework. Sydney University recently ...

Australian hedge funds on course to reach $100bn

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
Treasury reforms, financial innovation and growing demand is driving interest in Australia's hedge fund industry, according to the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund industry association. Currently managing $96.9 ...

Australians making more money from investing than working

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
Median Sydney house prices reaching $1 million combined with another strong year from super funds highlights how, for many Australians, their investments make more money than they do. Newspapers in Sydney this week featured stories about how the median ...

SMSFs keeping cash for better markets

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
Self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) stowed away $56 billion in excess cash during the 12 months to April 2015, the highest amount in seven years. Billions that would have been invested if it were not for market uncertainty is reflective of a wider ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after US stocks fell for a third straight session as disappointing earnings from Caterpillar, American Express and others overshadowed some stronger reports. At 0815 AEST on Friday, the September share price ...

GFC recovery only tentative

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
Global markets should be asking themselves whether they should have done better in recovery almost eight years after the global financial crisis (GFC), according to Aberdeen Asset Management head of fixed income Nick Bishop. Speaking at a recent Australian ...

CFOs more optimistic in second quarter

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
A momentum shift away from the perceived uncertainty about the federal budget, China and Australia's search for new growth is influencing more positive levels of business confidence. This is one of main findings from Deloitte's second quarter chief ...