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Mercer wins NGS Super mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
The $2.6 billion industry super fund NGS Super has appointed Mercer as its administrator and financial advice provider to its members. Mercer announced yesterday its appointment to oversee the non-Government schools industry fund's member services ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
The Australian share market has received flat leads from Wall Street, with key indices, oil and copper ending marginally lower, while precious metals were higher. At 0731 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up ten points ...

Precious metals ETCs in vogue

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
Investors wary of equity market volatility are flocking to precious metals exchange traded commodities - a sector that has seen substantial inflows following the GFC, said ETF Securities. ETF Securities has seen inflows surge into its physically backed ...

Instreet a hit with planners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Sydney-based boutique firm Instreet Investment raised nearly twice its initial target of $20 million in an Australian equities product that taps into planner demand for "certainty" in the midst of the global financial crisis. The asset manager celebrates ...

The good in the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Sometime ago, I quoted Camp Quality's - an Australian children's family cancer charity organization - TV ad, 'Don't underestimate the power of optimism'. Wall Street lived this statement overnight with both the S&P 500 and the Dow rising by more than ...

AvSuper revamps death insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
The $1 billion aviation industry super fund AvSuper has introduced anti-detriment provisions to members' death benefits. Launched at the start of this year, AvSuper announced anti-detriment provisions will now apply to the death benefits paid to a spouse ...

Russell slashes Aust jobs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
Russell Investment Group has cut around 20 per cent of the firm's Melbourne and Sydney staff, but leaves local investment teams mostly intact. According to industry sources, the firm's Melbourne office, where the majority of staff cuts were made, suffered ...

Fiji Reserve Bank imposes credit controls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
The political and financial nightmare facing Australian financial institutions in their long-time captive market of Fiji is getting worse by the day. They look to have little choice but to co-operate with harsh new regulations imposed on them by the ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
What are they up to? What do they hope to accomplish? I am talking, of course, about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and our very own Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan. What do they have in common? Both still have not learned their lessons. Both want ...

Vantage point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
Depending on your vantage point, you would find that the global economy is on the mend or the global economy is still wallowing from its debt-inflicted pain. Wall Street sat where everything seems to be turning up roses. The Dow and the S&P 500 rose ...