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Switching super funds on the rise: survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
The number of active super fund members looking to switch funds has risen over nine months to July, with the number of industry fund members thinking of changing funds almost doubling, a survey found. An Investment Trends report found the number of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
The Australian sharemarket at noon has slipped back from early highs, weakened by the slump in Telstra shares and worse than expected housing data. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 19.1 points, or 0.42 per cent, at 4550.2 while the ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Like everywhere else around the globe, Japan's equity markets have rebounded from the extreme pessimism that marked the low point of the global financial crisis back in March 2009. At the end of August, the Nikkei-225 index has risen by 48.7 per cent ...

How to survive the next market outlier

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
After the GFC challenged the prevailing wisdom on how low markets can go, AXA's chief investment officer Mark Dutton tells investors how to protect their savings from another market armaggedon. When it comes to investing, Dutton said there are two golden ...

Maritime awards $155m to equities managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
Maritime Super's review of its Australian and international equities managers has resulted in Northcape Capital, T. Rowe Price and Ironbridge picking up investment mandates - but two existing fund managers have been dropped. The $2.4 billion fund's ...

Priced, but not for a V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
There's no point in us lurking around Wall Street this month. All the good news has been priced in. Perhaps. Perhaps not. This may well be - as I've discussed yesterday - the curse of September at work, where the line of least resistance is to give ...

Treading on treacherous territory

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
September is upon us! Yes, that single month of the year which historically has been statistically observed to be the cruellest for stock markets. Forget the "Great Crash" of October 1929 or "Black Monday" in October 1987, October's historical average ...

Diversa buys MARF Super

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
Super administration and investment management house Diversa has entered into an agreement to buy the $37 million retail master trust, Managed Australian Retirement Fund. ASX-listed Diversa Limited is looking to acquire the investment and administration ...

Shared equity property posts 21pc growth

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
Rismark International's residential property shared equity portfolio's mark to market value is 21 per cent higher than when it opened in March 2007. The firm's "mature portfolio" has invested in roughly 500 properties so far and based on cash-flows ...

Day of silence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
Big yawn! That's what Wall Street and European markets did overnight. Flat, flat, flat. Perhaps they took a one-day of silence to show respect for US Senator Edward Kennedy. Senator Ted passed away yesterday, aged 77. Or maybe they're just taking a ...