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Funds resist SG "me too" pension scheme

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
... out. Meanwhile, the same investors said that investment consultants will still be in demand for their advice but at least a third of pension funds will look to allocate mandates directly to cut fees. "The consultancy model has clearly failed in 2008 ...

CFD demand rises with equities recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... Investment Trends released its latest annual report on the sector, canvassing the views of more than 7,500 investors, nearly a third of whom are active CFD traders. The firm also surveyed a more than 300 investors who intend to trade CFDs and roughly ...

AXA Asia Pac half year net profit up 187pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
AXA Asia Pacific Holdings posted half-year net profit after income tax and non-recurring items of $270.4 million, nearly treble the $94.2 million recorded the same time last year - "strong results" underpinned by the group's revenue bias towards the ...

Planners lose staff but not for long

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
Nearly 40 per cent of financial planning businesses have lost staff in the last eight months, new research shows. According to figures by eJobs, 39 per cent out of 116 respondents said they had lost staff since November. These staff were let go by retrenchment ...

V still likely

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... thinking out loud that the recession may be close to ending as he expects growth to reach plus (yes plus) 2.5 per cent in the third quarter as businesses rebuild their depleted stocks. Professor Nouriel Roubini, now an "ex-permabear", told a mining conference ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... staying on the sidelines ahead of first-half corporate results. The Hang Seng Index rose 233.93 points to 20,807.26, its third consecutive gain. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket made moderate gains on sustained confidence even though eftpos company ...

ACSuper reviews investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... (ACSuper) is surveying its 4,300 members to gauge the appeal of an absolute returns strategy, and has placed less than a third of its total assets in an index fund while it's waiting for the survey outcome. David Payton, general manager of funds management ...

ASFA awards top super funds in comms

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... understand what really makes them tick," said Jennifer McSpadden, strategic marketing manager at AUSCOAL Superannuation Fund. The third recipient was Russell Investments for its 'Russell SuperSolution Annual Member Statement'. The firm had produced a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
... Pharmaceutical group Bayer surged 5.44 per cent to 42.23 euros after reporting results that beat expectations. Despite a third consecutive quarterly loss auto maker Daimler added 4.55 per cent to close at 31.46 euros. The company foresaw an improvement ...

Greener than green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... cent to an annualised rate of 384,000 units in June. Yeah so what? So what is: this is the biggest gain in eight years; the third straight month of increase - even after May's tally was revised higher by 4,000 to 346,000 units, and; it beat already bullish ...