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Cbus Connect merger heralds investment changes

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
Cbus is in merger talks with electricity fund CONNECT - a move that could see changes in overlapping mandates and a face off between each fund's asset consultant, Frontier Investments and JANA. Cbus, the industry fund for the construction, building ...

Angel in the detail: Cooper's cost cutting measures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
Jeremy Cooper, head of the Super System Review, estimates super funds can save up to $1 billion in costs by doing little things that add up to mean a lot. Speaking at the Conference of Major Super Funds (CSMF) yesterday, Cooper detailed the 'super stream' ...

Senate showdown looms on Clearing House legislation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
Coalition calls for major amendments to the Government's legislation to authorise the Medicare monopoly on Approved Superannuation Clearing Houses is setting up another Senate showdown."The Coalition needs to indicate today that they will allow this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
The Australian market has received flat to positive leads from overseas markets overnight, with Wall Street edging into positive territory in late afternoon trade, and precious and base metals higher, although oil was marginally virtually flat. At 0825 ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
Guess what? It's the bull market's first anniversary today! Hip..hip... Hooray Virgina! You and I have kept up the faith despite being battered by waves of doubters in an ocean of despair. It was exactly one year ago (9 March 2009) when Wall Street ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
The Australian stock market received a mostly positive set of leads from offshore trading, with Wall Street and base metals prices trading higher. But gold and oil prices were weaker. At 0825 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price ...

ASSET Super appoints union member to board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
ASSET Super has appointed Unions NSW assistant secretary, Chris Christodoulou, to its board. Christodoulou was elected assistant secretary of Unions NSW in October 2008. He joined the union in 1981 after being elected Wollongong Sub-Branch Secretary ...

UniSuper rejigs equities, combines cash and FI

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
The $25 billion UniSuper has restructured its Australian and international equities allocations within its eight pre-mixed investment options, and combined cash and fixed interest under one asset class. UniSuper has largely upped its allocations towards ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
The Australian share market was flat at noon, drifting marginally lower from the monrning as traders awaited the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision on whether to raise the official cash rate. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 0.1 ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
"The beat goes on...la de da de da." (Cher) The beat of mixed data that is, but Wall Street is seeing the silver lining in the dark clouds this time. First stop and the most important for the US economy - the consumer. Their personal income rose by ...