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Super funds to re-jig mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
A majority 64 per cent of Australia's major superannuation funds are looking to change their investment mandates to factor in climate change issues, a survey found. The Climate Institute and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) ...

HNWs to buy Aus equities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
Australian High Net Worth (HNW) investors, or those with more than $1 million of investable assets, are more likely to put fresh funds into Australian equities and cash-like investments over the next 12 months than in any other asset classes, a survey ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open little changed as the negative sentiment following falls in US stocks are offset by the positive sentiment generated by gains in the oil price. At 0743 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share ...

Furlan to lead Super Complaints Tribunal

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
The former compliance manager for LegalSuper Jocelyn Furlan has been appointed chair of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal. Senator Nick Sherry, the former minister for superannuation and corporate law, announced Jocelyn Furlan as the full-time ...

Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Happy consumers beget a happy Wall Street. Green sprouts starting to flower? Neither Kim Jung Il's rattling of his nuclear sabre nor a reminder that US house prices continue to fall were able to prevent Wall Street from turning in a strong finish last ...

Mixed reaction on shorting ban lift

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
From applause to criticism, industry reactions have been mixed towards ASIC's announcement today that it had lifted the ban on covered short selling of financial securities. ASIC today lifted the ban which was first put in place on 21 September last ...

Seeking equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
No confusion here. Wall Street would not be dragged into reacting to reports that US home building has fallen to its lowest level on record. Just imagine what could have happened had this report reached the headlines six months ago? US equities ended ...

Easing Libor pains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo index of US builder confidence rose to 16 in May - the highest level since last September - following an increase to 14 in the previous month. This is consistent with indications from the Reuters/University of ...

Perpetual starts legal proceedings to claim funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Perpetual Trustee Company has started legal proceedings in the UK on behalf of more than 1,000 retail investors who invested in $125 million worth of credit-linked Mahogany Capital notes that were sold by Grange Securities. Perpetual, the security trustee ...

De-stressing the stress test

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
Only a couple of weeks ago the US triad - US Federal Reserve, Treasury and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - were stressing over how best to release the result of the stress test they issued to 19 of their banks. They found a way. Back ...