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HOSTPLUS serves up online engagement

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
HOSTPLUS plans to repeat its social media campaign to place an apprentice chef in one of Australia's leading restaurants after generating high levels of member engagement with its debut outing, the Rainmaker Sales and Marketing Symposium heard today. ...

Trafford-Walker takes new role after securing CEO

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... committee called the Frontier Investment Policy and Strategy Committee (IPSC). Correction: An earlier edition of this article incorrectly stated on the first paragraph that it's been six months since Frontier announced it is looking to appoint a new ...

Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... might slash the credit ratings of French banks because of their exposure to Greece. As an aside, I came across a news article the other day reporting that the Greek government has hired foreign workers to prepare the underground tunnel leading from the ...

Ratings wrap

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... January when the manager appointed Jefferies Asset Management as the sole underlying sub-adviser to replace Macquarie. This article has been updated 4pm 3/06/11

Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... that Monday-itis off your systems. There's work to be done, money to be made! During my weekend reading, I came across an article by a fellow named Danny Furman. His resume says that he's a "full-time investor" and is "inspired by socionomic gurus including ...

May go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Uh-oh, this is the last day for equity investors to decide whether or not to "sell in May and go away". An article Reuters published on 27 April reminded me so. In it, Reuters wrote, "Jeffrey Hirsch, publisher of the Stock Trader's Almanac, offers some ...

Liquidnet hits $2bn in Q1 trades

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... reality the figure is likely to be closer to 15-20 per cent, according to Citi, reported Financial Standard in a previous article. Around 65 to 70 per cent of all trading is now done electronically, according to statistics. Liquidnet hosts more than ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
It's all quiet on the Wall Street front overnight. The US quarterly company earnings reporting season must be about to commence. Just in case. Trading volume was low and bereft of direction. The Dow was up 0.01 per cent and the S&P 500 was down 0.3 ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... that, I am not brave enough to play this mug's game and put a target on the Australian dollar. I still recall Bloomberg's article when the Australian dollar first started heading for parity and was changing hands at US$0.9374 in September last year. ...

Super exec pay on the table

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... function on Stronger Super plus a dinner on Sunday, before the conference begins. Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that the conference was in Brisbane. It is actually at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre. We apologise ...