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NSW and CFS partner in first gov retail annuity bond

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... advisers and their clients with access tax management tools, plus investor and client access to account information online. The third series of the Waratah Annuity Bond became available from 1 October 2012

Super funds out-perform TDs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
Super funds delivering 12 month returns of 6.8% are now almost two-thirds higher than their cash term deposit counterparts. SelectingSuper has just reported that the workplace default option index for the 12 months to end August 2012 skyrocketed in ...

New exec chairman: Nomura Australia

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... instrumental in establishing the Nomura Advisory Board in Australia, which recently saw the appointment of Michael Ullmer as the third member," said Hiroyuki Nishikawa, CEO of Nomura's Australian operation. Prior to Citi, Mr. Meurer was vice chairman ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... also last month and the Reserve Bank of Australia just lopped another 25 basis points off interest rates yesterday - the third this year following cuts of 50 bps and 25 bps in May and June, respectively - taking the official cash rate down to 3.25%. ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... internal reforms including the move towards lower carbon emissions that would cruel demand for Australian thermal coal. The third was the current "cyclical" downturn that was likely to continue." "It's an accident they're coming all at once, but they ...

Australian super funds, world's third best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Australia's super funds recorded the third best returns net of inflation in the OECD despite having the highest weighting to equities, reveals new research from the OECD. Denmark was the top performing pension fund nation during calendar year 2011 earning ...

Investor confidence index down: State Street

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... Associate's Paul O'Connell. Given the United States Federal Reserve's latest quantitative easing program, Froot regarded this third consecutive decline in North American investor confidence as surprising. "It is clear that in their actual portfolios ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... annual gain since August 2010. Not only that, the July data showed house prices in all 20 tracked cities rising for the third consecutive month. Yes, Stuart QEs work. I bet no one bothered to tell you all about the good news in China too - the Conference ...

Outsourcing risk worries APRA

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... and countries. Technology outages are avoidable, and often the result of poor knowledge retention and a high reliance on third parties, said APRA, while also acknowledging that the number of high severity system outages (from a technology risk perspective) ...

Waiting to digest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... week before that was revised up to 385K from 382K. Also, the US index of leading indicators dipped by 0.1% in August -- the third monthly fall in five months - after a 0.5% increase in July. Unlike the weeks leading up to the QEs -- where bad news is ...