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PIS expands management expertise

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
Dealer group, Professional Investment Services(PIS) has expanded its management team with the appointment of three executive managers. Peter Walther CEO said the continued attraction of high calibre people to the executive team reflected the enormous ...

More good news for US housing market

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
The status quo outcome of the recent US elections may carry the risk of continued political gridlock in 2013, but recovering market fundamentals are providing a welcomed kicker to the US housing market, according to research by Principal Global Investors. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
Australian stocks have opened flat, as local market players await a likely interest rate cut from the central bank. At 1035 AEDT on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 0.8 points, or 0.02 per cent, at 4,532.3 points, while the broad-market All ...

Give super fund directors more time: Gonski

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
Future Fund chairman David Gonski is diametrically opposed to frequent re-election of superannuation fund directors. Instead he says that board members' tenures should be structured as three terms of three years or two terms of five years. "Annual re-elections ...

AMP to raise $1 billion for 2nd infra debt fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
AMP Capital has launched a new infrastructure debt fund to institutional investors following increasing demand from Asia, Europe and North America. The AMP Capital Infrastructure Debt Fund II (IDF) invests in the subordinated debt of infrastructure ...

Aust Post streamlines Super payments for SMEs

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
Australia Post is about to become the country's first retail network to accept superannuation payments from small businesses (SMEs) for all staff. Available in more than 3,200 post offices Australia-wide, the new Australia Post service is expected to ...

China: economy rising, market sinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
They're still debating the cliff over yonder on Wall Street. And the headlines remain full of it - deal is close... no, it's not. And so it will be until the midnight hour when both sides of the US political divide shake hands, agree to kick the problem ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
The Australian market looks set to begin the week with gains after a rise in commodity prices on Friday. World stock markets had a relatively flat end to last week, but oil and base metals prices rose, which could give a boost to Australia's major resources ...

Tailored income projections drive investor engagement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
Before fund fiduciaries push members to engage, they should first ask what the engagement is meant to achieve. In Australia to attend the ASFA national conference yesterday, Donn Hess, head of product strategy at J.P. Morgan Asset Management advised ...

ASFA Board changes

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
HOSTPLUS boss David Elia attended his first Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia board meeting yesterday after being unveiled as the representative body's newest director. "We are extremely pleased to have someone of David's caliber join ...