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Consolidation is not the answer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
... financial crisis and its impact on super fund performance re-ignited industry debate on the number of super funds in the country and the size of trustee boards, with some industry players arguing there should be less of both. But in a report titled 'The ...

Nicholas-Applegate's 130/30 gets nod

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... since inception. The fund, which is available to Australian investors, lost 3.3 per cent, outperforming the MSCI ACWI (All Country World Index) Index more than four fold when the index lost 14.4 per cent over a two-year period. "There was a lot of uncertainty ...

China syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... keep its unemployment stable. Anecdotal evidence shows that sacked factory workers are already staging strikes in the country. Should the World Bank' prediction prove accurate, China will be in more trouble. The world will be in much more trouble. This ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after US shares gained on optimism that President-elect Barack Obama's plan for a huge infrastructure spending package will help boost the US economy. Resource stocks may also gain after commodity ...

IG Markets launches brand campaign

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... a local campaign as part of a global push to raise public awareness of the FTSE-listed brand in Australia. IG Markets' country chief executive in Australia, Tamas Szabo, said that the campaign is targeted at the 'considerer's market', CFD traders who ...

FMs back a winner 50pc of the time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... representing $235 billion. More than a quarter of the portfolios had a global mandate, 31 had a UK mandate and 29 were 'smaller country specific' portfolios.

Choice members up 25pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... time last year. Superannuation admin provider SuperChoice, which processes super for more than 42,000 employers in the country, has released a report based on their contributions transactions activity in the three months to September. Their key finding ...

You earn, I spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... Peter Costello flagged the possibility of retiring the Commonwealth government debt and effectively shutting down the country's bond market. While markets had no argument against the complete pay down of Australia's debt, they opposed the idea of scrapping ...

Dragon still on the rise

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... financial crisis may have dealt severe blows to many Western economies, but an expert on China predicts the communist country's investment opportunities remain robust despite the forecasted international slowdown. Xisu Wang, principal consultant of Think ...

No more short-selling: IML

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
One of the country's long-established value fund manager Anton Tagliaferro has urged the Federal Government to re-instate the shorting ban because short-selling threatens the ability of listed companies to raise much-needed equity capital in the next ...