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Investment teams need more skin in game

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... on the same industry panel as Liptak disagreed with the notion saying the magnitude of one person's super money was not a big enough driver to overcome agency risk. Despite this Drennan said that constraining conventional managers around tracking errors ...

Suncorp and Bendigo jump on hybrid demand

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... the capital raised from the Convertible Preference Shares, will be used to redeem an issue of Reset Preference Shares Amid big banks and household names flooding the market with hybrids, ASIC is pushing to change the name from 'hybrid security to 'capital ...

Australian super funds, world's third best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Australia's super funds recorded the third best returns net of inflation in the OECD despite having the highest weighting to equities, reveals new research from the OECD. Denmark was the top performing pension fund nation during calendar year 2011 earning ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
What's wrong with this market? With so much liquidity being pumped into the system by three of the world's major central banks - the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan - markets appear unconvinced. Wall Street was down ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... Energy Series lunch in Sydney. In Australia, the market started the week lower with weaker commodity prices contributing to big falls in mining stocks. At the close of trade on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 22.8 points, or 0.52 per ...

No BO news till elections please?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... answer to this. Not good enough for algorithmic-driven markets. Do what's a high frequency trader do. Scour cyberspace for some big event that's bound to produce results nearer term. So Spain here we come (again). News out Friday night (Aussie time) ...

A stock market rally could get Obama over the line

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
Despite a common perception that the Republican Party is good for business, over the past 12 elections spanning 48 years, the S&P 500 has in fact delivered higher average annual returns under Democratic governments. That's according to a recent paper ...

Waiting to digest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
With three of the world's biggest central banks - The Fed, the ECB and the BOJ - flooding the world with money, financial markets are still digesting what this all means. The "will they, won't they" do a QE question had been answered. They did. Now ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly lower despite modest gains on overseas markets. At 0808 AEST the September share price index futures contract was down five points at 4,410. The local market on Wednesday finished at its highest level ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
Australian stocks have opened flat as gains in the healthcare and utilities sectors were offset by weakness among energy and financial companies. At 1028 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 3.5 points, or 0.08 per cent, at 4,391.2 ...