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Aus Sup to manage 30% of own funds in 5 years

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... extract further value from the portfolio and global studies show that internal investment management typically costs three times less than external management for a similar return outcome. "Internal investing will bring a number of significant benefits ...

Super roundtable supports small business clearing house

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... proposing the ATO administer payments - a suggestion which was rejected by the Government on the grounds it could cost three times as much as the current system. COSBOA at the time said the inefficiencies of the superannuation industry are the cause ...

Fund returns recover to 3.1%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... delivered 0.6%, Australian bonds 0.4% and cash 0.3%. While the market average was 3.1%, leading funds delivered almost three times this at 8.6%. The top five Workplace Super funds (by default options) over the 12 months were QSuper with 8.6%, ESSSuper ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... less strict the bailout conditions would be) but is expected to formally request a bailout next month while the Financial Times reports that senior Italian officials warned that Italy could be forced to seek one by yearend. While the austerity for OMT ...

Gonski calls for NFP director liability review

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... grounds for optimism that the ACNC will not just regulate but also nurture giving in Australia. Much has been said in recent times over the need to change attitudes to giving in Australia with the 2008 Petre Foundation report finding giving by the affluent ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... does Brazil have to show for all these? Brazil's real GDP improved to an annual rate of 1.6% in the second quarter, four times the 0.4% annual rate in Q1 and a 0.6% annual rate of contraction in the third quarter of 2011. And the future looks brighter. ...

AusEthical announces 64% profit drop

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... the company. At the time, Vernon told Financial Standard that the industry was going through one of the "most tumultuous times in living memory and without these changes the company could not survive." When it released its results, AEI said that this ...

Lofty A$ supports offshore ETFs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... Mark Oliver, head of iShares Australia said that while he estimates offshore ETF usage by institutions to be up to three times the volume traded on the local exchange, the retail market remains skeptical over its use. Less than 30% of flow this year ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... deficit. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts a shortfall of 0.7% of GDP at the end of this year -- more than 10 times that of Uncle Sam's minus 7.6% But it's not only Australia, I received news from comrade Alex Dunnin (Rainmaker Director ...

Nomura hires ex-RBS fixed income head

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... RBS, Linton was based in London with the bank as head of EURO delta trading. Linton is Nomura's second big hire in recent times, with The Wall Street Journal reporting the bank had poached Sydney-based Bank of America Merrill Lynch managing director ...