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Health Super gives aid to fire victims

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
Health Super is helping bushfire victims by donating their call centre staff services, giving blood, and offering essentials to aid those in need. The $7.6 billion industry fund has donated the services of its call centre staff to the Red Cross Call ...

ETF assets to reach $1.6 trillion

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... blocks for diversified investor portfolios." While the ETF sector may offer asset managers opportunities in both passive and active products, this sector's growth is affecting even those firms not directly involved in the managing and selling of ETFs. ...

Sovereign wealth funds to buy more equities

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... investee companies - a clear indication of their passive investment natures. "It is a serious misconception that we are active or strategic investors - our sole objective iss to invest across a very broad range of assets and geographies to create long ...

Self-employed are more picky with advice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
Self-employed people are 25 per cent less satisfied on average with the planning services they received from their planners compared to retirees and other employed workers, a new survey found. The Business Health CATScan client satisfaction research ...

Carthona endorses UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... incorporate ESG issues into investment analysis and address them in investment policy statements. The firm will also be active owners and incorporate ESG principles into its ownership policies and practices. Another factor Carthona will consider when ...

AUI adds three

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... the position was created to strengthen AUI's capital management capability for its unlisted property trusts, focusing on active management and enhancement of the debt arrangements. D'Intino, who has worked as a compliance manager since 1990, joins AUI ...

Invest in shares or migrate: Ruthven

MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... is going to recover then you'd better pack up and leave the country because it's the only source of what you might call 'active return' that's available," he said. "Bonds are a passive return, property is a passive return so shares are the only thing ...

Planners to face cashflow crunch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Small-to-medium size financial planning firms risk bankruptcy if they don't quickly adjust their cashflow needs to suit today's realities, and the earlier they talk to their banker about needing extra help, the better, said one banking specialist. Malcolm ...

Gloves off ahead of APRA report

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... which posted losses of less than 3 per cent, according to Rainmaker Data. "The areas that have really hurt us have been in active management and global bonds. We've underperformed the benchmark for the last 12 months, circa 18 per cent, which is just ...

No mandate terminations: Hostplus

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
The $7 billion industry fund Hostplus has no intentions of terminating any of its investment mandates despite the losses it suffered on them last year. Sam Sicilia, chief investment officer of Hostplus, said the industry fund is not actively looking ...