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Another LIC fails

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
Shareholders in listed investment company (LIC), India Equities Fund, have voted to return capital to investors - highlighting another example of the weaknesses of LIC vehicles. More than 95 per cent of the fund's investors voted for the board's proposed ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
It took Wall Street a full day to convince itself that there must be something in the sharp turnaround in Asian and European equity markets the other day. US equities rose only about half a per cent the day the others jumped between 2 per cent and almost ...

Treasury Group ramps up asset allocation muscle

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
Treasury Group has created an investment advisory group, Premium Services, whose core function is to provide asset allocation knowhow to Treasury's suite of boutique funds. Yesterday Treasury formed Premium Services, an advisory team made up of Mark ...

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... collapse. No, thank you. Not when reports show that Agricultural Bank of China's US$23 billion IPO is 20 times oversubscribed. Yes, 20 (two followed by a zero). The sidelined US$460 billion (US$23 bil times 20 over-subscription) would have to find other ...

Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... burgeoning budget deficit and make good on its sovereign debt. Greece can't pay so there must be others? Searching... searching. Yes there are! Markets found Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, the UK and even the biggest one of all, the US. They've ...

Telstra boosts insurance portability

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
Australia's largest corporate super fund, Telstra Super has improved its insurance to include the ability to transfer externally held death and TPD cover to the fund, matched by group cover rates. The new arrangements kicked in yesterday. Chief executive ...

Rosenberg leaves AXA after review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
The founder of AXA Rosenberg, Barr Rosenberg, has resigned from the board of the US-based firm after an external review found he did not act in accordance with company policies, following a coding error from June last year. According to a letter to ...

State Street win $10 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
State Street Global Advisors has won $10 billion in passive equity mandates from QSuper. SSgA announced yesterday the funds will be invested in an Australian Equities Index mandate, an International Equities Index mandate and a Global REIT Index mandate. ...

EOFYS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... of 0.5 per cent. Who cares? The world boomed and busted while Japan remained in limbo since the 1990s. Next stop, Europe. Yes, there's an OMG moment there too. There the worry is about the expiration of the European Central Bank's (ECB) lending program ...

Waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
International equity markets' reaction to the weekend's G-20 gabfest was to be expected. They were up a little. They were down a little. Like I wrote on this space yesterday, there was something for everyone - depending on which paragraph of the G-20 ...