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Demand rises for Aussie bonds and cash: AMP

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian securitisers had $3.4 billion sitting in cash and deposits as of the March quarter, a figure less than half of the $8.2 billion squirreled away in the grim days of June 2009 when panicked investors fled plunging ...

BT Investment Management wins $61m mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... property sector after becoming disenchanted with the former investment managers. The charter was awarded in the March quarter, according to Rainmaker Research. Advance Asset Management (AAM) is part of the Westpac Group along with BT Investment Management ...

ASIC fee changes

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... will face higher fees from the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) from July 1 based on the March quarter Consumer Price Index. Starting in the new financial year, any application to register an Australian company (proprietary company ...

AMP wins $113m new mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... superannuation mandate from industry fund Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme. The new charter was apportioned in the March quarter according to Rainmaker Research. Energy Industries, a public sector superannuation fund covering 22,700 NSW employees ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... least perturbed by the release of Australia's National Accounts that showed real GDP fell by 1.2 per cent in the March quarter. Not even the fact that the economic slump in the first three months of 2011 was bigger than the 0.9 per cent contraction in ...

Software speeds up SMSF creation

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... is horrendous," he said. "No printing or sending back forms." According to Australian Tax Office figures for the March quarter, the number of SMSFs reached 447,620 with a total of 853,653 members. The SMSF sector had a total of $432.3 billion in assets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... between 106.38 US cents and 107.10 cents. Official data on Tuesday showed the current account deficit widened in the March quarter to $10.447 billion, driven by a big drop in exports. Economists say the widening of the trade gap will strip 2.4 percentage ...

GDP down no reason to frown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... Financial markets still expect an RBA rate hike sometime along the way to end-2011. Oh ya! This is because the expected March quarter economic contraction was well, expected. It won't really matter whether the actual number announced by the ABS tomorrow ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) issues Balance of Payments and International Investment Position data from the March quarter, and Building Approvals figures for April. In equities news, Optus chief executive, Paul O'Sullivan, addresses the CeBIT ...

Bentham wins $350 million mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... won a major new mandate from AustralianSuper worth $350 million. The segregated global loan mandate, issued in the March quarter, will increase Bentham's funds under management to $2 billion. Richard Quin, managing director of Bentham, said investors ...