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Small Companies fund bags three stars

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
The Pre Select Australian Small Companies Fund, managed by MLC, has been awarded a three star rating by Standard & Poor's after more than six months 'on hold'. MLC replaced Mercer as principal investment adviser to the fund in July 2010 and the managerial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices all clearly lower, along with oil, although precious metals were higher. On the ASX 24 at 0714 AEDT, the March share price index futures ...

Catching its second wind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
What's this? More good news out of America and yet Wall Street went nowhere overnight? The Dow closed just a little bit (0.1 per cent) lower. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq ended last night's session just a tad (0.1 per cent) higher. It was hilarious reading ...

Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
That dreaded "I" word is making a comeback into market players' psyche. Inflation is lurking just around the corner - at least for the developed economies. In the emerging ones, they've been trying to shoo evil inflation away as if almost forever. China ...

Treasury targets $18.8bn in lost super

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
Draft legislation released by the Treasury on Friday has called for submissions regarding the use of tax file numbers (TFNs) on superannuation funds, a motion receiving mixed responses from the industry. The draft proposes to assign TFNs to identify ...

Speck of sand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
Trouble on the Nile? What trouble? Oh yes, all eyes are still glued to the evolving story about the political unrest. But after Friday night's knee jerk reaction on Wall Street, the temporary fear over the unfolding Egyptian saga proved just that... ...

Former adviser faces fraud charges

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
A former financial adviser is facing charges, including fraudulently obtaining client funds, after an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Alan Leslie Brown, of Lugarno, New South Wales, has appeared on a total ...

Bennelong appoints senior analyst

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
Former ING Investment Management analyst, Kieran Sission, will join Bennelong Australian Equity Partners (BAEP) next month as a senior analyst. Sission has worked with members of BAEP management for more than five years during their tenure at ING Investment ...

Welsh retires as VicSuper CEO

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
Bob Welsh, the long standing chief executive of the $7.7 billion VicSuper, will retire at the end of this month. Welsh, aged 64, has led VicSuper since its inception on 1 July 1999, when it replaced the Victorian Superannuation Board as Trustee and ...

Government unveils response to Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
The Government has welcomed most of the recommendations from the Cooper Review - but rejected several key proposals to do with MySuper. The Cooper Review originally recommended that there should be no cost cross-subsidisation between MySuper and other ...