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Independent directors not the silver bullet answer, super fund chairs

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... have independent directors who have done pretty disastrously too. I can say in my own backyard, that UniSuper has said many times its found a lot of benefit in having independent directors... I don't think it's the same as the ASX you can't just legislate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... as investors flocked into safe haven US and German government bonds, seen as the benchmark holdings to have in troubled times. In London, the FTSE-100 index of top companies closed down 106.96 points, or 1.92 per cent, at 5,460.38 points. In Paris, the ...

Forum: Women driving change

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... many. "Men don't have to make that decision," noted one executive. According to McKinsey research from 2009, men have a nine times better chance of reaching executive level than women, despite equal numbers entering the workplace. It's also estimated ...

Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... the time they were trading. Forget Greece, "For Markets in Europe, the Focus of Fear Moves to Italy," printed the New York Times as "Italy's Surging Bond Yields Set Berlusconi on Path to Bailout" (Bloomberg). If the problem of Italy being too big to ...

Hero to Zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... seat when the a,-8 billion aid is dropped on Greece's begging cap - if ever, this would be disbursed at all. The New York Times reports dear George reached an agreement with Greek Opposition leader Antonis Samaras to form a Unity Government but sans ...

Union members an industry fund minority

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
There are three times as many people in industry funds as there are union members, showing that industry funds should no longer be identified as union superannuation funds. The Qantas industrial dispute has ignited interest in Australia's industrial ...

Private equity activity improves: research

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... generated excellent returns. Overall the data is encouraging, demonstrating the strength and stability of the industry in times of wider economic volatility and uncertainty." Small and medium-sized firms are funded mainly by private equity managers ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... year in a bid to tame stubbornly high inflation. China's leaders have since October last year raised interest rates five times and increased the amount of cash banks must keep in reserve, effectively restricting their lending capacity. WELLINGTON - Wellington ...

IFM announces global fee rebate

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
... as a leading provider of net benefit returns to institutional investors. IFM grew its funds under management (FUM) at 3 times the rate of an average fund manager, based on June 2011 statistics from APRA on FUM growth (27% FUM growth versus the average ...

Another 'should have gone shopping' moment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... is now heading in the right direction - that is, further away from the precipice of a double-dip - and it's nearly three times better than the 0.9% pace in the first half of 2011. The Fed is right all along, that the growth pause earlier in the year ...