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New hires in AuSuper's internal team

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
AustralianSuper has beefed up its internal investment team with four new hires, who will oversee Australian equities, infrastructure, property and investment operations at the $55 billion industry super fund. The fund said that the four senior investment ...

VicSuper adopts fresh approach to sovereign exposure

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... fund (US and Japan with circa 30% respectively). The sovereign component of the new benchmark applies a 10% individual country cap and a 30% collective cap on Euro countries. This index is then overlayed with the BlackRock Sovereign Risk Index - a non-investable ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... middle of the first month of 2012. "An escalation of the (European) crisis would spare no one. Developed and developing country growth rates could fall by as much or more than in 2008-09." May as well be the end of the world. That very day of the same ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... House Speaker John Boehner said the White House was so resistant to cutting government spending that it risked pushing the country off the "fiscal cliff." The "cliff" is tax increases and government spending cuts that take effect on January 1 unless ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
... came back under pressure ahead of a general election in Japan on Sunday and expectations of more monetary easing by the country's central bank. Tokyo on Wednesday rose 0.59 per cent, adding 56.14 points to 9,581.46 and Seoul was up 0.55 per cent, gaining ...

Perpetual finds new CFO

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... Westpac Institutional Bank where she was chief financial officer and managing director. Before that she was Citigroup's country CFO for Australia and New Zealand. Angus Benbow who has worked with Larkins since she started in October will take the reins ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... about looming tax hikes and spending cuts due in January. In the absence of a deal, the measures were expected to push the country into recession. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets posted mixed results, while the euro declined against the dollar as ...

Murdoch matriarch remembered for charity work

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... life, our mother demonstrated the very best qualities of true public service. "Her energy and personal commitment made our country a more hopeful place and she will be missed by many." Dame Elisabeth famously criticised Rupert Murdoch's now defunct UK ...

PIS expands management expertise

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... business, we are truly excited about our position in the market as the largest non-institutionally owned dealer group in the country and look forward to emerging as a recognised industry leader."

Euler Hermes appoints Chris Doube CEO

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... Australia, holding various management positions with Coface, QBE Trade Indemnity and Dexta Corporation. Until May 2012, he was country manager of Coface Australia, and most recently served as general manager of Trade Credit Underwriting Agency at National ...