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Better corporate cash management lifts returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
Inefficient cash management is costing Australian corporates millions of dollars in extra unnecessary fees and governance risks, impacting their financial performance and in turn costing investors and super fund members foregone investment returns. ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
What a difference a week makes. Yes, yes, yo Virginia, in just seven winks, financial market sentiment went from "shiver me timbers, the sky is falling" to hapeee. Don't believe me? Here's Bloomberg's take last 15 October in its report headed, "World ...

Group insurance consortiums 'inevitable': MetLife

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
Group insurers must form consortiums if they want to continue to provide group cover to the growing 'mega-funds', according to MetLife head of distribution Michael Goodall. Speaking at an even hosted by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees ...

Voting opens on the SelectingSuper popular awards

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
Voting has opened for the SelectingSuper 2014 self managed super fund (SMSF) administrator of the year popular choice and for the consumer choice award division of the SelectingSuper fund awards. Results in the SMSF popular vote will contribute to determining ...

OneVentures Innovation and Growth fund raises $60m

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Australian venture capital firm OneVentures has announced the first close of its Innovation and Growth Fund II after raising $60 million. The fund - which invests in healthcare, education, mobile, media, cloud computing and data, sensors and robotics ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Just when I was about to ditch Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down" as the equity market's 2014 anthem... the central bankers came and (re)played it all again. "I get knocked down but I get up again, you're never going to keep me down". Nah Virginia ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
The Australian share market had made strong gains in opening trade as investors snap up cheaper stocks following recent falls. Comments overnight from the Federal Reserve Bank's St Louis president Jamie Bullard suggesting that the US not scale back ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Talk about being careful... for they might come true. 'Twas not so long ago that Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) and the IMF worried about complacency in the financial markets as indicated by low, down on the ground ...

Climate induced GFC a 'very real' risk: Hewson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Former Liberal leader John Hewson has said that over-investment by banks and pension funds in carbon-exposed industries could lead to a global financial crisis that dwarfs the 2008 crash. Hewson was speaking in his capacity as chairman of the Asset ...

Australia's pension system second best in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Australia's pension system is the second best in the world, according to the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index. With a score of 79.9%, Australia outperformed the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden in the index, and was just behind Denmark ...