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ANZ HFA alliance targets Asia

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
ANZ and international absolute return fund manager HFA Asset Management have joined forces to launch a new capital protected investment fund focused on emerging Asian economies. According to a joint statement, the ANZ Discovery Asia Fund will provide ...

Future Fund to adopt ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... "With so much emphasis on climate change from federal, state and territory governments, many people will be shocked to discover government-controlled funds are still investing $47 in fossil fuels and uranium for every dollar they invest in renewable ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
There's not much point to Australia's terms of trade being at record levels if all it does is drive up our currency and keeps us suffocating under a current account deficit that just won't budge. The terms of trade are a measure of the prices we pay ...

Streetwise $26m fraudster awaits sentence

Ten months after his arrest in the US, disgraced Streetwise property developer Kovelan Bangaru has finally appeared in court last week to face charges of misappropriating more than $26 million in investor funds. Bangaru pleaded guilty to 11 offences ...

Fundies find a loophole in money laundering law

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
On the eve of the implementation of the most significant provision of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act, the regulator Austrac has conceded that there is a big loophole in the law. Austrac issued a statement yesterday, saying ...

What members want

A Telstra Super research study on what its members want has revealed some surprising results, including how much people are willing to pay and for what services. Speaking at the ASFA conference yesterday, Telstra Super's general manager in marketing ...

Rocketing small caps slow big cap funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
Strong small cap performance in the last three years has dragged down a large cap manager's performance relative to the index, according to data from research software provider Inalytics. The discovery came when a UK pension fund client asked Inalytics ...

Pre-retirees map out uncertain future: FSS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2007
Almost one-third of Australians are planning to ease themselves into retirement through part-time work, according to a First State Super survey. Michael Dwyer, chief executive of First State Super, said discovering how their members intended to approach ...

AXA takes care of business

AXA comes to the rescue of financial planners who are time and resources poor after it launched a series of initiatives that can help improve planner profitability, productivity and quality of advice. After twelve months of development and rigorous ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
The Australian share market was lower at noon as hesitant investors await a recovery on Wall Street. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 42.4 points to 5969.2. The All Ordinaries dropped 38.6 points to 5988.9. On the Sydney Futures ...