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Governance key to improving returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
... anything from 60 to 100 basis points to a fund's returns. Comparing not-for-profit and retail funds worldwide, he said Canadian and American defined benefit funds consistently beat mutual funds by 2.66 per cent over 10 years, while Canadian defined benefit ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... sector sparked by one of the country's biggest resources takeovers. While Rio Tinto's hefty $US38.1 billion price tag for Canadian aluminium producer Alcan Inc sparked a downturn in its share price, hopes that merger and acquisition fever might spread ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2007
The Australian stock market had surged into record territory at noon, with Rio Tinto's $44 billion takeover bid for Canadian aluminum producer Alcan underpinning solid gains in the resources sector. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 44.5 points ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2007
... down 30 cents to $30.88 while rival Rio Tinto fell 26 cents to $89.96. Zinc producer Zinifex Ltd's subsidiary Zinifex Canadian Enterprises Ltd announced this morning it had acquired 95 per cent of Canada's Wolfden Resources. In response, Zinifex's share ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... high at close after the world's largest aluminum producer, Alcoa, launched a $US27 billion ($A32.94 billion) bid for Canadian rival Alcan. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 48.35 points to a record of 13,312.97. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained ...

Canadian pension fund returns topping 14 per cent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
Canadian and Australian pension funds have a lot in common as the good performance run of Canadian pension funds is continuing to be driven by both domestic and international equities. "Since hitting their low-point in March of 2003, [Canadian] pensions ...

QIC finds value in IP

... returns that fall through the cracks of traditional asset classes," said Day. The fund gave the $30 million mandate to the Canadian fund manager Northwater Capital Management's Intellectual Property Fund. This fund makes money through income coming from ...

RBC Dexia expanding service range

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2007
... clients in those markets encouraged them to offer those same services to other clients, like in Australia. For example, the Canadian hedge fund market has expanded significantly for similar reasons why its expanded in Australia. It is regulated differently ...

PIS gets behind the wheel for racing sponsorship

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... we will be sponsoring promotion girls as part of the off-track activities." In 2006 PIS purchased 107 planner-strong Canadian financial planning operation Generation Financial Corporation and the group has operations in New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia ...

Canadian pension funds score 12.9 per cent

Canadian pension funds returned a healthy 12.9 per cent for their CAD$340 billion in funds under management in the year ended 31 December 2006, according to global investor services group RBC Dexia Investor Services. "With many of the world's major ...