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Super funds stage comeback

Super funds have clawed back almost 9 per cent of their assets wiped out by the financial crisis last year - staging an astonishing reversal of fortunes in just six months. According to a performance survey of 41 super funds conducted by SelectingSuper* ...

Instos allocate $980m to catastrophe bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Bermuda-based Nephila Capital, which counts AMP and MLC as clients, has raised $980 million in the second quarter of this year from institutional investors targeting catastrophe reinsurance funds. Greg Hagood, the fund's co-founder, said pension funds ...

AIA Aus hires Telecom CEO to board

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
AIA Australia appointed former Telecom New Zealand chief executive, Theresa Gattung, to its board. Gattung was chief executive and managing director at the telecommunications firms between 1999 and 2007. Before joining Telecom, Gattung was chief manager ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open in positive territory after US stocks rose and oil prices gained overnight. Lower gold, silver and copper prices could limit gains, however. At 0732 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

The market's next 800-pound gorilla

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey said the Government is creating an "800-pound gorilla" in the market that could drive up the cost of financing for the private sector over the next few years - particularly if more government bonds are issued to fund its ...

Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
"War is over, if you want it, want is over now" (John Lennon) Wall Street have resumed its upward trek after tripping some weeks back as number crunchers lowered company profit expectations and the dumping of warm bodies on the unemployment heap continued ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket has received positive leads overnight from higher stocks and commodity prices overseas. At 0709 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 42 points higher at 4,050. In economic news ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected open in positive territory after Wall Street closed mostly higher on Friday. At 0753 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 11 points higher at 3,993. In economic news ...

Another dead feline bounce

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
Oh boy! Wall Street is setting itself up for disappointment round 2. Cling! Cling! With the economic environment still challenging at best and recovery in a galaxy far, far away US equities - and by extension, equities everywhere else - would be hard ...

Rio Tinto seeks super trustees

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
Corporate super fund Rio Tinto Staff Superannuation Fund is on the hunt for three new directors to join its trustee board. The Rio Tinto fund, which had $2.3 billion at the end of June last year, said three of its current member directors are completing ...