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Ratings houses silent on Japan fund fallout

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... affecting super fund investments. The Nikkei has fallen by more than 16 per cent since Monday. A flight to bond market safety has caused yields to plunge. Australia and Canada led the FX decline while the dollar and the yen outperformed as traders reverted ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... damage such as a hole, judging from the fact that the radiation level has not jumped," a spokesman for the country's nuclear safety authority said. Mr Carr said the only significant piece of data released during the local domestic session were the minutes ...

Japan bond jitters keep funds guessing

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... mutual fund Pacific Investment Management Co (PIMCO) recently dumping all Treasuries from its portfolio. But a flight to safety in the Treasury bond market resulting from nuclear meltdown at Japan's troubled reactors could counter-act the effect of expected ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... Bond yields almost everywhere have fallen since the MENA tension erupted. Now why would investors "flock to the relatively safety of the bond market" if they really, truly believe that inflation would continue to rise? You wnat to stay as far away from ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... according to the Grinch, the greenback's rebound is indicative that investors are parking their money into the relative safety of the US currency because nothing's well in the world as yet. Look at China, it's tightening monetary policy. Then there's ...

AvSuper awards hedge fund mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... 1990 to provide superannuation benefits to employees and former employees of Airservices Australia and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). It opened membership to the general public five years ago and currently has more than 5,500 members and ...

ASIC super expert joins ASFA

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... Funds, and a member of Don Mercer's Superannuation Working Group. The group provided recommendations to government on the "Safety in Super" legislation. Du Pre-Alba will be based in Melbourne. Meanwhile, David Graus will remain as general manager policy ...

BlackRock to develop super SMA

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... drawn on what kind of growth it is expecting from the super option. Langlands said that heightened volatility, a flight to safety and closure of some funds in the past two years has made investors - particularly in self managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) ...

AvSuper awards BEM mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... 1990 to provide superannuation benefits to employees and former employees of Airservices Australia and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). It opened membership to the general public five years ago and currently has more than 5,500 members and ...

Indian pension funds poised for growth

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... markets for years to come, market watchers say. India, like most emerging market economies, has no universal retirement safety net. But over the past decade, authorities have been taking steps towards ensuring more Indians' retirements are adequately ...