Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 4551 - 4560 of 6817 results for "Top"

Australian funds lead global asset growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
Australia now has four representatives in the top 100 global institutional funds ranked by Towers Watson, as the super system drives superior growth to the rest of the world. According to a research study conducted by Towers Watson and US investment ...

McTaggart resigns as QIC chief

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... momentum and it will continue down the path it is, consolidating and building the multi-boutique structure and delivering top quartile investment returns." Peter Young AM, QIC's chairman, thanked McTaggart for his time as chief executive. "Under Doug's ...

ACSI: executive salaries soar above share value

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
Chief executive salaries for Top 100 ASX Australian companies increased 131% over the past ten years while executives working for companies on the S&P/ASX 100 earned a 31% salary raise, according to new ACSI research. The study, as part of Australian ...

Rainmaker event draws global investors to Australian market

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
Global fund managers will have the chance to assess the merits of entering Australia's $1.5 trillion wealth management market at an event hosted by Rainmaker Group and Bloomberg in Singapore today. Rainmaker managing director Christopher Page and Bloomberg's ...

SMAs drive interest into concentrated Australian equity funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... smaller investors and are better suited to a unit trust product," he said. Two concentrated Australian equity funds made the top grade while three were downgraded in Lonsec's latest Australian Equity (Concentrated) Sector Review. Both the Hyperion Australian ...

Super returns crash below 5%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... funds averaging 5.5% and master trusts 3.2% for a gap between them that is still an incredibly high 2.3 percentage points. The top five Workplace Super funds (by default options) over the 12 months were ANZ Staff Super with 10.3%, Health Super with 9.4% ...

Invesco shifts Asian focus to consumer demand

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... Australia. "We think the theme has got 20 to 30 years to run so it's not as if the time has past and we're jumping on the top of the wave, we're there just as the Asian community is turning into a self sustaining economy driven by the Asian population ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
The Australian market looks set to open higher, after wall overnight closed up two per cent as upbeat US consumer spending figures lifted hopes that economic growth will pick up and Hurricane Irene caused less damage than feared. At 0714 AEST on Tuesday ...

Super funds prefer employers via clearing houses

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... businesses with less than 20 employees, but Collister said the uptake had not been big so far. Collister will be one of many top industry speakers at IQPC's Process Automation for Super Funds 2011 event in September where she will give a talk on managing ...

Moody's does an S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... AA+ on 5 August, Moody's Investors Service slashed Japan's sovereign credit rating to Aa3 from Aa2 - three notches below its top rating -- yesterday. According to Moody's website, "The rating downgrade is prompted by large budget deficits and the build-up ...