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NZ Superannuation Fund excludes four firms from portfolio

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... and Zijin Mining Group. NZ Superannuation Fund said this decision were based on information from its specialist screening agency which identified where the companies had breached global standards of good corporate behaviour such as the UN Global Compact. ...

Why QE3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... lowered long-term Treasury yields. For example, studies have found that the $1.7 trillion in purchases of Treasury and agency securities under the first LSAP program reduced the yield on 10-year Treasury securities by between 40 and 110 basis points. ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... consistent with its dual mandate, the Committee agreed today to increase policy accommodation by purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40 billion per month. The Committee also will continue through the end of the year ...

Fed's about to go... or not?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... as announced in June, and it is maintaining its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities." "The Committee will closely monitor incoming ...

Legal challenges face default super inquiry

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... take regulated superannuation products and apply an extra layer of commercial assessments administered by a Government agency. One example of the commercial attributes laid out includes an assessment on whether the investment objective of a fund and ...

Double A USA - the scare that wasn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... warned on 7 August 2011 that, "THE Australian sharemarket is expected to suffer another horror day tomorrow after rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded the US's credit rating and issued a scathing critique of Washington's ability to deal with its ...

MySuper outside government scope

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... together. Also on the panel was Productivity Commission representative Mike Woods, who said that the independent government agency was conscious that the superannuation system was experiencing a great deal of change, taking this into account in its draft ...

ESG sheds light on Sov debt crisis: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... region, in an interview with BBC Radio, as fears grow that Spain will need a full international bailout. On Monday ratings agency Moody's lowered the outlook for the German economy to "negative" from "stable" - along with a similar move for the Netherlands ...

Wen's visible hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... the real good news. It was the state of the economy past. The real good news is what's Wen says he wants now. Xinhua New Agency reported Premier Wen Jiabao declaring that the government "must do everything possible" to create jobs by "encouraging growth ...

Wins and losses in PC default super report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... selection decision. Options three having massive workload and moral hazard implications, not to mention it injects a government agency directly into a consumer choice process, makes it untenable regardless that is one of the options favoured by the PC. ...