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The house that Sherry built

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... Superannuation Guarantee (SG) Bill 20 years ago is back in the limelight, this time with ambitious plans to dismantle the country's jerry-built superannuation system and replace it with a cheaper and more member-friendly model. It's not so much an attack ...

CAAM eyes retail

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... over a year ago. Today the fund manager is aiming to get into platforms and aim for bigger mandates. Richard Borysiewicz, country head for Australia and New Zealand CAAM, said the fund manager is engaging the services of several retail researchers to ...

Market Movers Overnight (8 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... prices remained elevated. The rise in commodity prices is expected to slow consumer consumption in all regions of the country. We will receive the US Federal Reserve's view on the current and future state of the global economy tonight at chairman Ben ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... Shares closed up 0.85 per cent on the back of strong gains in Chinese financials after a positive earnings report from the country's biggest bank, but turnover dropped to its second-lowest level this year. The Hang Seng Index ended up 181.04 points at ...

NZ economy goes negative

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... decline since March 1998, as the agricultural sector struggled due to drought experienced in key growing areas of the country. Higher production costs, particularly fuel costs, also dampened activity in the sector."

New multi-managers challenge incumbents: S&P

... aren't. The report found there are more overseas fund managers coming to Australia in the hope of getting a slice of the country's trillion-dollar superannuation savings and investments market. But with competition getting tougher, the report revealed ...

ING buys into Turkish pension market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
... institution ING Group purchased Turkey's first and only voluntary pension fund, Oyak Emeklilik for $180 million to tap into the country's pension market. Previously owned by OYAK Group and established in 2003, Oyak Emeklilik has $244.6 million in assets ...

Iron Ore price jumps 85 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
For a country that complains about paying record high oil prices, Australia is set to enjoy an export revenue bonanza as it exploits shortages in world food, commodities and resources. Yesterday the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics ...

Super fund reporting to go online: ASIC

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
The country's financial regulator ASIC is giving super funds the go ahead to use the web as their default method of delivering annual fund information to members, as long as certain conditions are met. "We have decided that for this year we will allow ...

T.Rowe Global Equity fund 'highly recommended'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
... roughly 60 to 120 stocks that are highly regarded by the firm's global research team and aims to outperform the MSCI All Country World Index (unhedged). "This underscores T. Rowe Price's position as a leading fund manager in the global equity sector," ...