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August angst to September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
For a while there last week, it seemed the financial market storm has come and gone... and it was safe to go back into the risk waters. Financial markets are again in upheaval and fear is once more on the rise - the VIX index spiked 10.5% overnight ...

Manus and Nauru are immoral and risky: super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... company's revenue comes from government contracts to manage asylum seeker detention centres in Manus and Nauru. Transfield's defence division was the only one to deliver profit for the half year to February 2015, with divisions not depending on government ...

SMSF Association appoints independent director

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Chief financial officer at Defence Health, Cath Mulcare, has been appointed as an independent board director for the SMSF Association. Mulcare has been the chief financial officer at Defence Health since September 2011, and has worked across a range ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... the other major currencies. Could it be that the PBOC is just doing a Swiss National Bank (SNB) - when it abandoned its defence of the franc early this year - in anticipation of being drowned by the flood of franc shoppers ahead of the ECB's QE? The ...

Bank glitch delays government super payments

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... provide priority to these payments," the CSC continued. The delays affected former Australian public service workers and Defence Force pension payments. "Our bank has advised that they are completely focused on having all payments processed to pensioner ...

Australian Defence Force offered super fund choice

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
From July next year people who join the Australian Defence Force (ADF) will receive an employer superannuation contribution of 16.4% regardless of the super fund they choose. This forms part of legislation introduced by the federal government last month ...

Instos overconfident on drawdown risks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... equity risk in their portfolios," the report said. SSGA said that "a more reliable approach would rely on multiple lines of defence." "Strong recent performance in the equity markets may have lulled some investors into a false sense of security," the ...

Future Fund and AustralianSuper settle court case

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... by AustralianSuper's own portfolio during a 6-month analysis. Documents released by the Future Fund when it lodged its defence to the Supreme Court of Victoria revealed that the sovereign fund's senior executives David Neal and Mark Burgess had met with ...

Bond investors warned not to overlook defence

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... an American expression, they go on offense." "We're using all that extra flexibility to try and find new ways to go on defence." Husain wants his bond fund, the T. Rowe Price Dynamic Global Bond Fund, to behave like bond funds used to behave - to be ...

ESG becoming essential to insto alternative investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... investment research Deb Clarke said. "Incorporating ESG considerations into investment decisions strengthens a portfolio's defence against risks arising from governance failures, changes in policy and regulation, and environmental and social trends. ...