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New Zealand Super on track after strong 2012

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... 2012, the latest data show. Since the fund's launch in September 2003 it has returned 7.92%, exceeding the 90-day Treasury Bill rate by 2.84%. The Fund's long-term performance target is to beat the Treasury Bill rate by at least 2.5%. The New Zealand ...

Global bond melt-down on cards: Harris Fraser

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
A major turn in the US Federal Reserve's policy has increased the potential for a catastrophic fall across fixed income markets, a factor which is being largely ignored by the global investment community, according to wealth manager Harris Fraser. At ...

NZ Super fund breaks $20bn

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... 2029/2030. The fund has returned 7.57% annually since launch, 2.41% ahead of New Zealand's risk-free benchmark, the Treasury Bill rate. The Guardian's active management has added a total of 0.57% per annum in value. Chief Executive Officer Adrian Orr ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
Miners and energy stocks have added around one per cent to Australian shares after a successful French debt auction and good production results boosted risk appetite. Shares extended early gains driven by a strong sale of French treasury bills overnight ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street showed good gains overnight. At 0830 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up 22 points at 4286. No major economics is expected on Friday. In equities ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
Australian stocks look set to open higher despite mixed movements on international markets overnight. At 0707 AEST on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was 33 points at 4,078. Overnight, the Dow Jones closed just 7.65 points ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
The Australian share market dropped sharply on the open as nervous investors reacted to Standard & Poor's historic weekend downgrade of US sovereign credit. At time of writing the All Ordinaries Index had fallen 66.1 points or 1.59% to 4103.6 while ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
China is proving true to the words uttered by US President John F. Kennedy half a century earlier. In a speech in Indianapolis delivered on 12 April 1959, JFK said that, "When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents ...

State Street scores $1bn mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
State Street Global Asset Managers wins a $1 billion global mandate from one of the world's top 20 sovereign funds, the $43 billion Alaskan Permanent Fund Corporation. The trustee board of the American super fund handed the mandate to State Street on ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... Nasdaq composite index rose 18.14, or 1.17 per cent, to 1,565.48. Bond prices were mixed. The yield on the four-week Treasury bill rose to 0.05 percent after having been auctioned on Tuesday with a yield of zero percent. The auction was a dramatic sign ...