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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open flat ahead of local jobs data and following a lacklustre performance on Wall Street. At 0808 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up five points at 5,791. In local economic news on ...

BNP becomes First Super custodian

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... Zealand Ian Perkins said: "We look forward to providing them with world-leading custodial services, including investment performance reporting, risk analytics and online solutions." "We will also help First Super optimise operational processes, including ...

How to get private equity returns from listed stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... investors are seeking the illiquidity premium it offers. In their research paper, 'The Components of Private Equity Performance: Implications for Portfolio Choice', Windham's Mark Kritzman and State Street's William Kinlaw and Jason Mao argue that investors ...

APRA deputy chair criticises life insurance sales culture

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... said that the industry's focus on "sales and distribution" has affected its standards of practice and, he argued, performance over time. Laughlin added that these problems were prevalent across both the retail and group life insurance sectors. In the ...

Super funds turning to passive to tackle high fees

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... earn almost 5% annually just for super savings to hold their ground. To illustrate the impact of fees on investment performance, the bank said a 30-year old man could retire at 65 with super worth $511,000 in a 0% fee option compared to $319,000 in a ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... So good, that it's all so bad. "Baby, baby, baby nooo". This, at least, was the message conveyed by Wall Street's performance on the day the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the jobs numbers. They all fell down - US equities, that is. The S&P ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open flat after a lacklustre finish on Thursday and an unriveting performance on Wall Street where stocks lifted slightly. At 0840 AEDT on Friday, the share price index futures contract was up four points at 5,894. ...

Retail super bounces back

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
The SelectingSuper MySuper (ie Workplace) rolling 12 month performance index made a remarkable recovery during January as it surged 320 basis points to reach 11.5%, with retail MySuper products stretching their short term segment lead to 0.7%. Three ...

Vanguard is Morningstar Fund Manager of the Year

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... determined based on qualitative research, risk-adjusted returns over medium- and long-term periods and calendar 2014 performance. Funds with less than a three-year track record are not included.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... including gross domestic product, for the December quarter. Also due out are the Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) for February and the National Australia Bank's online retail sales index for January. Speakers at ...