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Africa wants slice of bail-out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
Africa's leaders urge governments in the US, Europe and Asia to add an African component to their stimulus packages so the continent continues its economic turnaround after the GFC. "We call on rich countries to keep Africa in mind as they design programs ...

Cycling for charity: Quadrant

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
Are you up for a 100km bicycle ride from Port Arthur to Hobart to help young people with problems kick their addictions? For Quadrant Super, riding for charity is a breeze. The Tasmanian-based super fund is one of the corporate sponsors of Live Free ...

Plum opens investment website

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
Plum Financial Services has launched an equity market and investment information website, Investor market watch, for its members. The website shows a number of Standard & Poor's indices, real time data market data with the All Ordinaries Index, a range ...

LGSS fixes pricing error

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
The Local Government Superannuation Scheme has addressed a unit pricing error that occured in the September quarter last year, according to a fund statement. LGSS issued a statement in December noting that there had been a tax error that occurred with ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Simplistically rejecting the idea of temporarily cutting super contributions misses the big opportunity - putting superannuation into the economic frontline and making it part of our monetary policy heavy artillery. A group of economists lead by Nick ...

Is super sexist?

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
An IOOF-owned super fund launched two months ago is targeting female investors and future retirees in its latest financial literacy campaign, which includes a report titled 'Is super sexist? Things to think about for women.' The super fund's report ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Two million jobs and counting. This is the number of Americans that will bring increased profits to Campbell Soup come Christmas time. And because these ordinary taxpayers' have to give part of their now non-existent income and drastically reduced wealth ...

Choice members up 25pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
The government's push to centralise SG contributions processing will benefit the growing number of Australians who exercised choice-of-fund, up 25 per cent in the September quarter compared to the same time last year. Superannuation admin provider SuperChoice ...

Media Super sponsors Walkley awards

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
Lights, camera, action - Media Super, the industry fund for print, media, entertainment and arts professionals, is sponsoring the 2008 Walkley Awards. The $2.6 billion fund is the major sponsor of this year's Walkley Awards, which pays tribute to journalists ...

IRESS signs Elston Partners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... htmlIRESS (client online access market data and portfolio reporting.) "We have chosen to implement what we feel is state of the art technology," said Andrew McKie, managing director of Elston Partners. The firm started using the IRESS products in October ...