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Media Super wants corporate marriage

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... formal overtures had been made, a Fairfax director sits on the Media Super board. The merger process was likened to a 19th Century marriage at the recent CMSF conference, but Martin said his firm would not make any formal moves before it integrates its ...

Climate change choice - market or regulation?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... occurring across the world economies it will condemn the nation to repeat the cycle where for the first eight decades of last century Australia had the lowest productivity growth of any of the developed economies, he said. If Dr Garnaut is right this ...

More tailored advice for baby boomers: Salt

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... planners must begin to cater for. "It's a bit of this, a bit of that. It is simply a better business model from the 20th century notion that you work until you are 65, get a gold watch and retire," said Salt. "My point is we are not just going to see ...

Rethink before you rebuild

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... rethink our approach to it. "We used to think of the financial system as a machine, not as an eco-system. The twentieth century was one of machines and structures. But money doesn't work like that anymore," she said. "Products are more complex but less ...

Century Funds manager bid fails

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
Century Funds Management (Century) has failed to get the numbers needed to replace Opus Capital as manager of Opus 21 due to insufficient voting numbers by unitholders. According to Century, eight in ten voters voted for Century as their preferred manager ...

Century Funds vies to take manager role from Opus

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Century Funds Management will make a bid as manager and responsible entity of the Opus Income & Capital Fund No. 21, to be decided by vote on February 28. The fund manager, which has $900 million in invested property and funds, said that the major unitholders ...

Perpetual sees 8pc upside for ASX200

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... ASX200 next year. That might seem modest, but it would be above average, according to data stretching back more than a century. According to Perpetual, the average price return of the Australian market since 1875 stands at 6 per cent. Perpetual's head ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... morning. It's so easy to discount this latest animosity between the Korean siblings. They've been at it for more than half a century. They had big skirmishes in 1999, in 2002 and just last March. The world got along nicely. South Korea even grew wealthy ...

Bottoms up

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... by three academics at the London School of Business, Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, which used more than a century worth of data from 83 countries, the correlation between GDP growth and stock returns is statistically non-existent. The example ...

RBF-Tas terminates 452 Capital mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... with 452 Capital accounted for a significant proportion of the boutique manager's $3 billion in funds under management. Century Australia Investments appointed Perennial Value Management last month as the interim manager replacing 452 Capital for the ...