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Shariah-compliant hedge funds hit the spot

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
Shariah-compliant hedge funds could outperform their traditional hedge fund counterparts this year, predicts Aureliano Gentilini, global head of hedge fund research at Thomson Reuters Lipper. Gentilini said that Shariah-compliant hedge funds stand to ...

Consolidation is not the answer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
Super funds with double the average number of trustees produced better returns than their peers according to new research, suggesting calls to downsize trustee boards could be counter-productive. The global financial crisis and its impact on super fund ...

Trust wins $200m Fin Synergy mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
Trust Company Limited will act as a trustee for a number of superannuation funds including Austock Brokers Super, GrowSuper and Super Synergy Fund as part of a new $200 million mandate from Top Quartile Management Limited (TQML), a wholly-owned subsidiary ...

Same super rules for same sex couples

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The government has introduced new superannuation rules that will address what has long been viewed as discrimination against same-sex de facto couples when it came to superannuation death benefits. Under existing Commonwealth superannuation and pension ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after US shares gained on optimism that President-elect Barack Obama's plan for a huge infrastructure spending package will help boost the US economy. Resource stocks may also gain after commodity ...

AvSuper unlikely to follow govt fund mergers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
AvSuper has sought to clarify the fund is not a government super fund after receiving phone calls from members regarding the government's move to merge three government super funds to form a single trustee board. This follows a government announcement ...

You are what you Google

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Among the top finance term searches on Google this year were 'superannuation', 'interest rates' and 'investment banks' but as to which keyword was more popular than the other changed state by state, according to Google Australia. The world's largest ...

Que sera, sera

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
Roll out the printing presses. Cutting the Federal funds target rate below 1 per cent is certainly feasible. This was the statement delivered by US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in his speech before the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce in ...

Life insurance too complicated: survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
The life insurance industry is missing a significant segment of the Australian market after a new survey found two in five people think insurance is far too complicated and hard to understand. ING Australia's life insurance research 'She'll be right ...

Planners spared AMP job cuts

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
AMP is axing 46 staff from its financial planning and advisory business - but the company confirms that its planners are safe and business operations will continue as normal. "There will be no impact on planner numbers," said an AMP spokeswoman. "We ...