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State Super focuses on risk

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
The $30 billion State Super is focussed on fine-tuning its trustee board's risk detection and management skills to help steer the fund through the global financial crisis. Don Russell, chairman of State Super, said he is looking to boost the involvement ...

A centre for managed futures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Global managed futures giant Superfund sets up an investment centre in Sydney, open to the public, to help investors understand how managed futures work. Set up in Austria back in 1995, Superfund has grown to manage more than US$1.4 billion in assets ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market was lower at noon on Friday, pulled back by weakness in the banking sector following a negative lead from United States markets overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was off 51.2 points, or 1.48 per cent ...

Thumbs down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Fizzler. This is the equity market's verdict on US President Barack Obama's latest salvo on preserving the 'American Dream'. If the Dow's overnight fall to a six-year low is anything to go by, yesterday's unveiling of the US$275 billion Homeowner Affordability ...

National clearing house shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
As the government moves closer to firming up its plans for how to deliver its national superannuation clearing house, new models are emerging regarding how it could be done. In the May Budget last year, the Rudd government announced it had allocated ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Australian markets have received mixed leads. While Wall Street was slightly higher in late-afternoon trade, precious metals were higher, copper was up, too, but crude oil ended up lower. At 0709 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market was marginally lower at noon after falls in the resource sector. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 25 points, or 0.7 per cent, lower at 3,534.1, while the broader All Ordinaries shed 18.1 points, or 0.52 per cent ...

Planners to face cashflow crunch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Small-to-medium size financial planning firms risk bankruptcy if they don't quickly adjust their cashflow needs to suit today's realities, and the earlier they talk to their banker about needing extra help, the better, said one banking specialist. Malcolm ...

Zenith wins clients and adds to team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Zenith Investment Partners has won four new clients, appointed former Property Investment Research (PIR) associate director, Dugald Higgins, to manage its new direct property research division and added an additional investment analyst, Graeme Miller ...

E*Trade signs on Praemium

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
Praemium Limited has signed a deal with E*Trade Australia to provide the tech firm's tax reporting solution to all 350,000 of the latter's Australian clients. Praemium said the arrangement will enable E*Trade clients to manage their investment tax reporting ...