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A lesson against austerity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... Japan. It might still be early days and 'one swallow does not a spring make' but the magnitude of the improvement in first-tier eco data in Japan is unmistakeable - indicating that 'Abenomics' is working and the government's 'three-arrows' - huge fiscal ...

Low balance members hit with fees under super changes

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
Extra administration costs borne out of the federal government's proposed superannuation changes could be passed onto all superannuation fund members, even those with small balances, according to Deloitte. The government has said that the proposed loss ...

EM managers eye huge super fund opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... management - have either soft-closed or are about to, forcing super funds and other institutional investors to look to a second tier of active managers for additional capacity. Last week Bedlam Asset Management chief investment officer Ian McCallum told ...

PineBridge pitches quant solution to super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... echelons of emerging market active funds are reaching capacity," he said. "The question we've been asking is whether second-tier managers can give their investors consistent alpha over the long-term. As super fund allocations to emerging markets grow ...

Big infrastructure underscores China growth

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... individual animal. Banking technology is also in high demand, with Digital China deriving a lot of business from smaller banks in tier two and three cities that need to advance their offerings. "While there are concerns about corporate governance, the ...

Overseas investors' demand replacement of LM as RE

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... 20% and 24%, respectively, of the Main Fund, which, at 31 December 2011, had gross assets of $418 million, making it a mid-tier mortgage fund. Other unitholders hold the remaining 56% in the Main Fund. Trilogy Group chairman Rodger Bacon was initially ...

Hybrid securities back in favour

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... ANZ's $1.5 billion offer. Joining the hybrid party is listed insurance company Suncorp with the launch of a $350 million Tier 1 hybrid two weeks ago. The Commonwealth Bank is also tapping into the growing investor demand for high yield with the recent ...

APRA issues final Basel III reforms

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... include a stricter approach to regulatory adjustments under which most deductions from capital are to be from Common Equity Tier 1 capital. Among the changes, the Common Equity Tier 1 Capital must be at least 4.5% of risk-weighted assets and the Tier ...

Suncorp and Bendigo jump on hybrid demand

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... insurance company Suncorp is one of the latest to tap into investor demand for high yields with the launch of a $350 million Tier 1 hybrid offer this week. The insurance giant said that the money raised from the hybrids which are called Convertible Preference ...

Cash in on overseas asset offload

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... Morgan Asset Management's head of Global Real Assets Group, Joe Azelby. Global banks have two choices, either raise more tier one capital to meet the Basel requirements, or shed their balance sheets of assets that need a lot of capital to be held against ...