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VicSuper wins sustainability award

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... SME Report and Best Report. This year the fund also received best report for a small to medium sized enterprise for the third year running and best report for a financial services company for the second year running. VicSuper has been a strong promoter ...

Open fire roasted bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... sales. The US Labor Department goofed. It revised US productivity to show a faster annual growth of 2.3 per cent in the third quarter instead of the 1.9 per cent gain it calculated last month. The latest ADP/Macroeconomic Advisors survey showed that ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
The Australian share market remained marginally lower at noon with softer than expected third quarter economic growth not having a major impact on equities. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 9.2 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 4,575.2 ...

Heat rises on emissions disclosure

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... that the proposed resolution (around carbon disclosure) actually impinged on the board's authority to manage the company. A third resolution lodged with Oil Search has been accepted for its AGM in May 2011. Woodside Petroleum is taking legal advice on ...

J.P. Morgan makes fresh moves in sec lending

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... provide securities as collateral instead of cash to borrow Australian securities from State Street Bank and Trust with a third party safekeeping and monitoring the collateral until the transaction is complete. The deal will also allow the lender to take ...

Danger everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... without any Korea (North and South). Danger in Japan, Will Robinson. That ssurprisingly strong GDPgrowth you saw in the third quarter would be paid back in full - plus interest - this quarter. Mr. and Mrs. Tanaka have already bought everything all the ...

Tower wins First State Super, ousts MetLife

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
Third-ranked group insurer Tower Australia is nipping at the heels of top two rivals AIA and ING, now called OnePath, after signing a landmark deal with the $20 billion First State Super. Effective next month, Tower will provide death, disablement and ...

A brighter future for hedge funds in 2011

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... investors," researcher Preqin said in a report released this week. As a result of restored confidence in the sector, over a third of the global institutional investors surveyed by Preqin said that they planned to increase their allocation to hedge funds ...

Charter Hall fund assets to $70m

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... launch - through a major property deal. DIF has now acquired a new distribution facility in Kingsgrove, New South Wales and a third asset in Willawong, Queensland, raising the fund assets from $40 million to $70 million. DIF is targeting a total equity ...

Me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... as their housing and labour markets - but other activity indicators have been improving. Profits continue to expand. The third quarter saw around 80 per cent if US companies beat profit expectations. Forward indicators such as the leading index of economic ...