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Illiquid assets boost returns: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... while retail funds tend to hold them as private equity. Valuation concerns are manageable as "trustees generally rely on third-party valuation experts to value illiquid investments," noted the paper.

Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... Investing $23.9B". According to Bloomberg, "Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) invested $23.9 billion in the third quarter, the most in at least 15 years, as he accelerated stock purchases and broadened the portfolio beyond consumer and ...

Union members an industry fund minority

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
There are three times as many people in industry funds as there are union members, showing that industry funds should no longer be identified as union superannuation funds. The Qantas industrial dispute has ignited interest in Australia's industrial ...

Congressmen agitate for US transaction tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... Peter DeFazio said they plan to introduce legislation that will impose a 3 basis point tax on financial transactions, one third the European rate, reported Bloomberg. They last tried to introduce such a tax in 2009 that would apply to short term security ...

Machines of loving grace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September indicates that economic growth strengthened somewhat in the third quarter, reflecting in part a reversal of the temporary factors that had weighed on growth earlier in the year." No it's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... its first quarter earnings while Boral Ltd holds its annual general meeting. In Australia, on Wednesday shares posted a third consecutive trading day of losses as optimism evaporated about the eurozone debt deal after Greece's call for a referendum on ...

SG Bill enters parliament with strong support

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
The Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Amendment Bill has entered the House of Representatives today with the support of associations and government, with Minister Shorten introducing the abolishment of the age limit. In addition to increasing ...

SMSF cloud solution launched

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... professionals with an easy to use, full support service to set up and maintain SMSFs, without having to lose the client to a third party SMSF administration provider," said company director Kevin Nicol. "Unlike some other SMSF administration services ...

Another 'should have gone shopping' moment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... what I saw were good - and getting better. Gone are the dark clouds. US real GDP expanded at an annual rate of 2.5% in the third quarter -- not much to write home about considering that it's in line with market expectations, it's not strong enough to ...

Govt infra paper opens investment doors

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... super funds. On October 5, Financial Standard reported that the number of unlisted infrastructure fundraising figures for third quarter 2011 had hit new records for the year with 136 total funds with a target of $95.4 billion now available to investors. ...