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Investors want cash from companies

NICK OLIVER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
Investors want companies to start giving them more cash back, according to a Merrill Lynch survey of fund managers. According to the results from the Merrill Lynch Global and Regional Fund Manager Survey 53 per cent of investors would prefer companies ...

Employers should give TFNs to super funds: Mercer

NICK OLIVER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
Australians could be spared a hefty tax hit on employer super contributions if disclosure rules were amended so employers could provide super funds with employee tax file numbers, according to Mercer. As part of the new superannuation rules set to come ...

Aviva goes green with carbon outputs

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2007
Aviva is aiming to be the first insurer to carbon neutralise its operations on a worldwide basis. Aviva's carbon output stems from business travel and its use of non-renewable sourced electricity and gas in its offices. Aviva aims to neutralise its ...

Macquarie gives $11 million helping hand

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
Macquarie Bank Foundation and staff contributed over $11 million to more than 400 community organisations in 2006, making it one of the leading benefactors to the community sector. The Macquarie Bank Foundation aims to provide financial support as well ...

Perennial opens for business in Amsterdam

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
Perennial Real Estate Investments (PREI) has appointed a new senior portfolio manager (Europe) to open its new Amsterdam office. PREI announced its Amsterdam office would open this month with new senior portfolio manager, Boudewijn Van Loen, at the ...

Hastings MD set to retire

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
Hastings Funds Management has announced it is aiming to appoint a new managing director by June this year with current head, Tim Poole, set to retire. Poole has held the managing director position for the past two of his 11 years at Hastings and has ...

CFS global churn triggers on hold rating

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2006
... manager and analyst for global techonology and communications, Nigel Masding, and analyst for global health and technology, Oliver Trefgarne, have also recently left. The newly appointed head of global equities in London, Habib Subjally, has been in ...

Cash becomes king with inflation on the up

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2006
... annual rate will rise to around 3.4 per cent. AMP Capital Investors' head of investment strategy and chief economist, Shane Oliver, said he predicts a higher CPI will trigger a rate hike next Wednesday when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) makes its ...

Emerging markets to bounce back after correction

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2006
... month, according to the Sovereign Bond Flow Indicator. But AMP's head of investment strategy and chief economist, Shane Oliver, argued the downturns were just "garden variety" and low inflation will continue to push demand for emerging market equities ...

Illiquidity to test retail investors: AMP

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2006
... leading economist has warned. AMP's chief economist and head of investment strategy for the group's diversified funds, Shane Oliver, warned liquidity will be harder for retail funds to manage if and when the market falls. "These funds are fine in a rising ...