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Recovery is too fast, too furious: IML

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Anton Tagliaferro, investment director at Investors Mutual Limited (IML), believes the local sharemarket's recovery over the past five months has overshot the mark. In the fund manager's August newsletter, Tagliaferro said although local economy appears ...

Not bullish enough, maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Have you heard the latest gossip? Yes, that one. Australia's economy has now left the gloom and doom of the global financial crisis behind and is now walking into the gloom and doom of rising interest rates. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open slightly lower as Wall Street ended flat amid weaker sentiment and profit-taking. At 0753 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 10 points lower at 4421. In economic ...

NY fund invests $200m in climate change

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
The New York State Common Retirement fund invested $200 million in the FTSE Environmental Technology 50 and HSBC Global Climate Change Index. Thomas DiNapoli, the New York State Comptroller, invested the funds in line with the fund's Green Strategic ...

Challenger returns to core

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
Challenger Financial Services has posted full year net profit after tax (NPAT) of $219 million, up 1 per cent versus last year on funds under management (FUM) down 27 per cent to $16 billion. The group said at the results presentation this morning that ...

Future Fund offloads Telstra shares

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
The $58 billion Future Fund has sold 684.4 million Telstra shares or 34 per cent of its Telstra holdings to institutional investors. The Future Fund sold the shares at a price of $3.47 (gross proceeds $2.37 billion) through an underwritten sale to the ...

Clock ticking for UK defined benefit schemes

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
Research has found half the UK companies with defined benefit pension schemes expect to close them to all employees in the next three years, forcing employees to rely on defined contribution schemes instead. Watson Wyatt research found more than one ...

HSBC wins AMP Capital mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
HSBC-owned quant manager Sinopia has won a mandate to provide global passive inflation-linked bonds to AMP Capital's Future Directions Diversified Funds. As the specialist quantitative asset management arm of HSBC Global Asset Management, Sinopia manages ...

VicSuper and FSS win AIST scholarships

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
Peter Lunt, executive manager investments at VicSuper and Cristina Cifuentes, trustee director of First State Super, have been named the winners of the 2009 AIST Educational Scholarships. The scholarships - valued at $10,000 each and sponsored by Tyndall ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower after Wall Street fell more than two per cent overnight. At 0711 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 45 points lower at 4317. In economic news on Tuesday ...