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CFS GAM releases second PRI report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... fellow signatories, asset consultants and investment managers. Addressing this internally, CFS GAM said almost every asset class within the group has an ESG specialist that assists the investment team implement the principles. Neil Cochrane, deputy chief ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
The Australian share market had surged over two per cent by noon with the big miners and the banking sector helping to buoy the market. At 1202 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 77.3 points, or 2.07 per cent, at 3812.9, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Investors to regain capital from axed fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... Meanwhile, Pengana will be concentrating its efforts on the Asian property market, which Carroll says will be a strong asset class to generate returns following the GFC. The firm is currently developing a new Asian long short real estate securities fund. ...

Baby boomers eye income equity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... retirement, income strategies have more of an appeal for that demographic." "We recognised that [it] was an underdeveloped asset class or segment of equities, as there were only eight strategies that were visible to us when we started the development ...

One in six DB funds in trouble: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
APRA has revealed that last year 15.9 per cent of defined benefit (DB) superannuation funds were in an "unsatisfactory financial position" and that things are now likely to be worse. "APRA's survey of all defined benefit and hybrid superannuation funds ...

Bull market on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
Wall Street paused. Wall Street is refreshed and ready for more climbing. Wall Street is back after taking a breather over the past three days, reversing some of the losses incurred since the start of the week. The S&P 500 index gained more than one ...

Mercer and MLC top IC survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Mercer and MLC have topped the implemented consulting survey in Australian shares and international shares respectively. The latest Rainmaker Information/CPG Research & Advisory found Mercer topped the Australian shares table losing 1.5 per cent followed ...

Australian RMBS gains appeal

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... to people actively, regularly [about these products]... and people are buying them," said Selby. Selby believes that this class of investors moved out of equity investments 18 months or so ago, and while debt and distressed debt securities are currently ...

VFMC suffers portfolio losses

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
The $30 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) took the full brunt of the stockmarket slump when it posted a 28 per cent loss in its Australian equities portfolio for the financial year to 31 March - and a 29 per cent loss in international ...

Media Super pushes into equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
The $2 billion Media Super is starting to feed money back into Australian equities, searching for a chief investment officer and finalising a new group insurance contract. Fresh from the merger between PRINT SUPER and JUST SUPER, Ross Martin, chief ...