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Yuan to float free, in our dreams

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013

UniSuper nearly ready to award $25m insurance contract

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
Industry superannuation fund UniSuper is in the final stages of a tender process for its insurance arrangements, with announcement of the new insurer imminent. UniSuper chief executive Terry McCredden told Financial Standard that the review was triggered ...

Millinium wins top Morningstar ratings

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
Brisbane-based fund manager Millinium Capital Managers has been awarded two 5-Star Ratings from Morningstar in its first year of ratings eligibility. Millinium's Multi-Strategy Income Option and Dividend Income Mandate received the top award from the ...

IFM wins $300m Cbus cash mandate

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Industry superannuation fund Cbus has awarded Industry Funds Management (IFM) with a $300 million cash mandate. Cbus executive manager - investment strategy Kristian Fok said that the decisiob was made due to IFM's reputation as a debt specialist, with ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Dive! Dive! Dive! You've heard the news - our very own currency is top of the pops no more, it's made one hell of celebrity splash over the past week as it fell below parity against the big dollar and continued to head down ...

MoneySmart list of unlicensed companies approaches 700

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
The number of unlicensed companies listed on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)'s online financial literacy website, MoneySmart, has grown to 696. China Environment Group Limited (CEG), based in the British Virgin Islands, has ...

FPSA makes senior appointment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
netwealth has appointed of Lisa Faferko as Financial Planning Services Australia (FPSA) head of licensee operations. In March this year FPSA came under the umbrella of netwealth Advice Group, alongside Pathway Licensee Services and Bridgeport Financial ...

Standard Life Inv Absolute Return Bond fund open to Aussie investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
Standard Life Investments (SLI) is looking to build on the success of its top-selling Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) fund by making its Absolute Return Global Bond Strategies fund available to Australian investors. Like GARS, the Absolute ...

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
You kiddin' me? Are...you...kidding...me? The financial press (or is it presses?) are full of it this morning. Wall Street's down overnight because of bad eco stats and surveys and not good expectations on QE. My, my...how many times have we heard it ...

Govt loses, then wins vote on super legislation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
The House of Representatives voted in favour of Opposition amendments designed to ensure at least a third of super fund trustees have to be independent before the government regrouped to rule out the amendment. According to a statement from Opposition ...