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AWU campaigns for opt-in super

The Australian Workers' Union national secretary Paul Howes has called on the Federal Government to allow Australian voters the option to direct their tax cuts into their super fund. In an articled published in today's Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne ...

Investors swarm to Asian hedge funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
The Asian hedge funds industry continues to expand exponentially as investors flock to pour more than $12.4 billion into the market last year. New data by global hedge fund research house, Hedge Fund Research (HFR), show assets in the Asian hedge industry ...

Valad splurges $138m for debut purchase

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
Time waits for no man, and Valad Property Group has certainly taken the proverb to heart as it wastes little time in snapping up three London office properties with its newly established UK Opportunity Fund. The $137.8 million purchase is the first ...

Investing in BRIC, food, feed and fuel

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... markets through the S&P BRIC 40 index. The Food, Feed, Fuel fund provides exposure to agricultural commodities including corn, wheat, sugar and soybean through the S&P GSCI Biofuel E40 Excess Return Strategy. "The rise in economic prosperity and population ...

Valad ups stake in UK property

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
Property fund manager, Valad Property Group, has launched a new wholesale property fund targeting the UK property market. Valad announced last week the close of its first capital raising for the company's $1.1 billion Opportunity Fund targeting multi-sector ...

When a lift in unemployment is good news

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
An economy moving to full employment has big implications for economic policy and how we should read the macro indicators. In a major speech to the NSW Economic Society this week, Dr Steven Kennedy from the Commonwealth Treasury said while the most ...

VicSuper wins Sustainability Super Fund award

VicSuper has received the inaugural Sustainable Super Fund of the Year award at the Australian Sustainability Awards held last week. Organised by sustainability publication specialist Australian Ethical Investor, two new awards were introduced this ...

Falkiner poised for retail growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
After three years of establishing its business, boutique funds specialist Falkiner Global Investors, partners with Colonial First State global asset management chief executive Warwick Negus and flags a renewed focus on global equities. Negus becomes ...

Macq targets Asian real estate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
Singapore, China and Tokyo will continue to provide significant opportunities for growth in property and real estate on the back of sustained economic growth throughout the region, according to Rod Cornish, head of Macquarie real estate research. Cornish ...

Cairns planner jailed for fraud

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
A Cairns financial adviser has been sentenced to eight years jail after pleading guilty to 14 fraud charges involving almost $1 million of client money. The Cairns District Court sentenced the man, Piet Cornelius Walters, on October 30, after he pleaded ...