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SELECT scores four stars for diversified funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2007
Select Asset Management today announced that Standard & Poor's has awarded both its Select Growth Portfolio and Select Defensive Portfolio diversified funds a four star rating. S&P fund analyst Tara Bell said, "The four stars reflects our high conviction ...

Economic round-up: Umbrellas up, ice creams down

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2007

Another stellar year for the index

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
The S&P/ASX200 has recorded its best year to date, delivering a total return of 28.7 per cent for FY06. The index's previous best returns have also been part of the current record bull run - 26.4 per cent in 2004 and 23.9 per cent in 2005. Jason Hill ...

Industry funds show strongest growth in assets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
Industry super funds continue to grow, driven by returns, their extra value and members making the switch, said David Whiteley, executive manager of the Industry Super Network. Whiteley said industry funds showed the strongest growth in assets for the ...

Economic round up: offshore outsourcing outsourced

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
As technology industries' demand for offshore services drives India's wages growth, India's Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is sending some of its outsourcing services offshore to Mexico. While India's salaries generally remain significantly lower than ...

Fin services not delivering

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2007
Ten years after the Wallis financial system inquiry, the industry has failed to deliver on its promise and continues to lag the rest of the economy while it has also become an export failure, highlighting that the inquiry really delivered very few tangible ...

Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
While recent downpours have seen Australian farm-export earnings forecasts raised by $900 million, storms have not been so kind to coal exporters, or to major commercial energy users who almost ran out of gas last week. It seems that Mother Nature has ...

Asset Super takes cash and splits

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2007
Asset Super has taken a $110 million cash mandate from Macquarie Treasury Fund and split it between ING's active Enhanced Cash fund and Perpetual's passively managed Exact Cash fund. The move sees 55 per cent of the mandate go to ING, while 45 per cent ...

Macq enters forex market

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
Macquarie has purchased 51 per cent of fast-growing online foreign exchange provider OzForex, allowing it to offer tailored foreign exchange services to its 670,000 retail customers. The purchase means OzForex will become the recommended supplier of ...

Economic round up: GDP vs. gross domestic happiness

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2007
There's just no pleasing some people. Consumer optimism has fallen despite another drop in unemployment and our continuing material and economic prosperity, showing that happiness is clearly not rising with our material success. According to a recent ...