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Insurance still tops: super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
Enhancing insurance products remains a priority for super funds and their providers in 2009 as government and industry funds re-jig their offerings for better member cover. Public sector super provider Super SA for instance has announced the roll-out ...

State Street scores $1bn mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
State Street Global Asset Managers wins a $1 billion global mandate from one of the world's top 20 sovereign funds, the $43 billion Alaskan Permanent Fund Corporation. The trustee board of the American super fund handed the mandate to State Street on ...

SERF to offer "cash" and "balanced" options

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
Members of the $1.65 billion Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund will have access to two new investment options this year. Starting 1 January 2009, members of the industry fund will be able to invest in the fund's balanced and cash strategies, on ...

Principal Global Investors wins $160m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
Principal Global Investors Australia has been awarded a $160 million global equity mandate from Tyndall/Suncorp Investment Management. At the end of last year, Suncorp reshuffled its manager line up of its Investment Management World Equities Trust. ...

NAB Super hands investments to JANA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
The $3.1 billion corporate super fund NAB Group Super is starting 2009 with a fresh take on investments by completely outsourcing their investment management to JANA Investment Advisors. In a January newsletter to the corporate fund's members, NAB Super ...

The January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
Where's the January effect when you need it most? Wikipedia describes this stock market phenomenon best: "The January effect is the tendency of the stock market to rise between December 31 and the end of the first week in January. There are many theories ...

Nicholas-Applegate's 130/30 gets nod

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management has won overseas recognition for its Global Equity 130/30 strategy. The fund manager's Global Equity 130/30 strategy, which is offered in both segregated account and mutual fund formats and available to Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower after US stocks fell as earnings season looms. At 0751 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March Share Price Index futures contract was down 57 points at 3,618. In economic news today, the Manpower-Melbourne ...

Financial Standard returning soon in 2009

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The Financial Standard daily email newsletters will be returning soon. In the meantime, we wish all our readers a prosperous New Year, or at least a better one than 2008, and we hope you had a great and restful Christmas. Our daily news will start again ...

Same super rules for same sex couples

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The government has introduced new superannuation rules that will address what has long been viewed as discrimination against same-sex de facto couples when it came to superannuation death benefits. Under existing Commonwealth superannuation and pension ...