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Ipac improves 'soft dollar' register disclosure

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... benchmark, and that compliance is monitored through audit programs. However, he was not able to provide a total dollar figure on how much soft dollar payments were recorded in these registers. He said the figures were held by licensees and there was ...

M&A activity to decline: report

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
An Ernst & Young report concludes that many global and Australian financial services firms prefer organic growth, with cautious attitudes held towards major acquisitions. The third Ernst & Young capital confidence barometer found that while capital ...

Direct property makes a comeback

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
A number of super funds including Professional Associations Super, Asset Super, Sunsuper and AustralianSuper have added their exposure to direct property in recent months, Rainmaker research shows. Direct property is back en vogue as investors look ...

ISN renews push for 12pc SG

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... shows why the superannuation guarantee must be lifted from its current rate of 9 per cent of wages to the more sustainable figure of 12 per cent, as the Federal Government has proposed. The research by the ISN's Dr Sacha Vidler found that a significant ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. European markets were clearly higher while Wall St is flat in afternoon trade. Precious metals were mixed, and oil was down. On the ASX24 at 0637 AEDT, the December share ...

Schroders surges, shuns Gartmore

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... almost 30 per cent from a year ago. Asia-pacific accounted for 47.5 billion of its FUM, but the company did not provide a figure for Australia. According to Rainmaker Information, at June 30th, Schroders managed $19.4 billion worth of Australian funds. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
The Australian market has received generally positive leads from offshore trading over the weekend. Equities markets were higher in both the US and Europe, as were precious and base metals and oil. On the ASX24 at 0652 AEDT, the December share price ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from overseas, although the late announcement by the US Federal Reserve on its plan to buy $US600 billion into the US economy to stimulate recovery had a positive effect on share trading late in the offshore ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, although the late fall on Wall Street will exercise a restraining influence on trading on Tuesday. Precious metals were lower, but base metals and oil were more buoyant. ...

Future Fund adjusts long term asset allocation strategy

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
The Future Fund's annual report released last Friday shed some light on how the fund uses its voting rights and why it has made changes to its its asset allocation strategy. In its annual report, the fund disclosed that since September '09, it had been ...