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Property recovery reignites super fund war

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Australia's recovering commercial property market fuelling the bounce back in the direct property sector, combined with share returns turning south, has dented the retail super surge and put industry funds back in the market lead. CB Richard Ellis has ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
What's seemingly wrong at the beginning of last week became whole again - maybe - by the close. Fears that China would impose measures to extract excess liquidity to bring down inflation came to pass - fears passed, Beijing passed tightening measures. ...

Maritime restructures asset classes, doubles insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
The $3 billion Maritime Super combined its listed and direct property investments under one asset class, merged its absolute return and alternatives portfolios and doubled its insurance cover for members as part of a fund review this year. The trustee ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Whoa boy! Hold your horses! QE2 expectations are going out of hand. It started with just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller ...

Count selects Lonsec and IRESS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
One of Australia's largest financial planning groups, Count Financial, has replaced van Eyk with Lonsec as its new research provider, and appointed IRESS as a software partner. Grant Kennaway, general manager of research at Lonsec, said the firm will ...

ASIC strikes back in Opus dispute

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
Legal wrangling over the future of a Brisbane-based property fund manager is continuing with ASIC filing an appeal against a Federal Court decision that looked to have provided the besieged property fund manager with a lifeline. ASIC cancelled Opus ...

RBC Dexia appoints new Hong Kong MD

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
RBC Dexia Investor Services appoints Brent Reuter as managing director of Hong Kong and head of sales and distribution for Asia to build out RBC Dexia's brand and franchise. Reuter will be responsible for continuing the process of RBC Dexia's plans ...

ANZ to open Chengdu centre

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
ANZ Bank has established a new Chinese-language operations centre in Chengdu to support its business growth in the region. Speaking at a signing ceremony with the Chengdu Government, ANZ chief executive Mike Smith said ANZ has now reached a size in ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
There were snippets of good news overnight although on the whole, they were just that -snippets. Bad news dominated the headlines. There was more of the same confusing data out of America. Jobless claims rose by 12,000 in the week ending 18 September ...

Divorcing super

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
Divorce battle over self-managed super fund assets and art ownership within SMSFs raises tricky questions over what happens when only one of the splitting couple is a fund trustee. Many Australian couples are often unaware of the effect divorce can ...