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Me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... economy has come back to life after the mid-year pause and especially after the GFC-induced contraction that sent the country into a recession from December 2007 to June 2009. Certainly some things still have to be righted in America - such as their ...

Port of Brisbane in the hands of super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... AustralianSuper take a 10 per cent interest in the port which is located at the mouth of the Brisbane River, and is the country's fastest growing container port. AustralianSuper is also invested in Melbourne and Brisbane airports, the M5 Motorway in ...

US insider trading probe rocks hedge fund community

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... past 48 hours, as part of a wide-ranging insider trading probe, the FBI has raided a number of hedge funds across the country. The first wave of investigations centered around low profile funds based in Stamford, Connecticut and Boston, however, recent ...

Lazard targets instos with new EM fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... often at the expense of their international equities exposure. The net effect of this decision is to reinforce the home country bias in the portfolio, leaving super funds heavily exposed to Australian equities.

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... in 1999, in 2002 and just last March. The world got along nicely. South Korea even grew wealthy and is the only Asian country to become a member of the rich club of nations - the OECD - apart from Japan of course. But "If anything can go wrong..." The ...

Ireland gives in to EU bailout

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... until now, Ireland had steadfastly resisted calls for it to receive assistance, with government officials stating that the country's funding needs had already been met until mid 2011. "Ministers welcome the request of the Irish Government for financial ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... be proposing to my colleagues that they should formally apply for a program. The banks were too big a problem for the country. The key issue all the time for the government is to ensure that we do not have a collapse of the banking sector." But Lenihan ...

More voice needed in policy debate: AustralianSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... retirement savings have not played a strong enough role in policy debates and need to lift their game, said the chief of the country's largest industry fund. Ian Silk, chief executive of the $33 billion AustralianSuper, said the super fund industry has ...

No pension for corrupt Bell staff

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... an insult to the hard-working people of Bell and have provoked righteous indignation in California and even across the country," Brown said in a press statement.

Factions will stay: AMP, AustralianSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
Two of the country's largest super funds, AustralianSuper and AMP, said a fully cohesive superannuation industry will never be achieved, as retail and not-for-profit super funds cannot completely set aside their differences to tackle the toughest issues ...