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Wrong answer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear!" The Third approached the animal, And happening to take The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake: "I see," quoth ...

Banking on a super precedent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... leaves a super fund? The Treasury information pack notes that they have already developed a draft fact sheet template. The third is the proposal for portable bank account numbers. Again, if Bernie Fraser's Taskforce can build his argument about how this ...

Super up 8 pct to 1.28 tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... the year. In second place were self-managed super funds climbing 10 per cent. Retail funds climbed only 5 per cent. One-third of the market belongs to SMSFs, one-quarter to retail and one-fifth to industry funds. Public sector funds on 14 per cent are ...

Transition mgmt takes centre stage

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... 24 per cent, or $4.4 billion, allocated to cash. Health Super prefers active strategies, but despite being only about a third of the size of First State, it uses almost twice as many investment managers, Rainmaker "In a merger, you're bringing together ...

Astarra director faces five years jail, $220k fine

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... pleaded guilty to two charges of dishonest conduct in the course of carrying on a financial services business, and admitted a third charge of making false statements in relation to financial products, in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court yesterday. ...

Court rejects Great Southern statement of claim

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... thought M+K would have provided a better argument today, but now M+K will be spending more of their clients' money having a third bite of the cherry," claims Bendigo and Adelaide Bank managing director, Mike Hirst, in a statement. M+K's third attempt ...

Lift NZ retirement age to 67

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... of 8 per cent at the height of the GFC. Unemployment has decreased to 6.5 per cent and interest rates are 3 per cent, one-third lower than Australia's 4.75 per cent.

Aviiid prepares to launch fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
Aviiid Third-age Living has appointed Pillar and Australian Unity director Eve Crestani as chairman and expanded its executive team, ahead of the launch of a new fund early next year. Aviiid, an investment funds and superannuation manager, invests in ...

AMP won't be fifth banking pillar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... biggest groups with the big two NAB and Westpac controlling 21 and 19 per cent, more than one and half times more than the third ranked AMP on 13 per cent. But AMP combining with AXA would push them to 18 per cent, one and a half times the fourth ranked ...

Perpetual settles over Mahogany

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... stalemate appears to finally have been resolved. "After thoroughly considering all options and with the relevant advice of third parties and the court, Perpetual believes the settlement agreement works in the collective best interests of Mahogany investors ...