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Retail funds want more super access

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
AMP has joined the chorus of retail funds who want the current award system opened to more competition, giving their superannuation funds greater access to default-fund advantage. AMP has tried repeatedly to join an industry award through Fair Work ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... lift the benchmark index. Telecom's share price surged 6.8 percent after an announcement that the company's network arm, Chorus, which must split off into a separate company, would build nearly 70 percent of the Government's ultra fast broadband initiative. ...

State Street pushes Asian Funds passport

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
State Street has joined the chorus of voices in favour of establishing an 'Asian funds passport' along the lines of Europe's UCITS. But it remains to be seen whether anyone outside Australia is really interested. In a report released today State Street ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... adage has been with us for some time now and it's back again doing the rounds in the financial markets. Yes, Virginia. The chorus for QE2 keeps growing louder that Wall Street - and the world - appears to be just waiting for the official announcement. ...

NAB/AXA merger not anti-competitive: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
Researcher Roy Morgan joins the chorus of dissenting voices on ACCC's reasons for blocking the NAB bid for AXA, releasing a report that shows a combined NAB/AXA or AMP/AXA would have the same impact on industry competition. Roy Morgan Research said ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... drop to 600 or lower this year as the global recession intensifies. Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg joined the chorus and also forecast a similar level for the S&P 500. These predictions, and apparently Warren Buffet's -- the 'sage of Omaha' ...

Up and over in the land downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... GFC that has sunk the economies of the big boys. 'I'll have what Australia's having.' No doubt this would be the envious chorus from the 29 other member countries of the OECD upon seeing our economic performance. But dodge a recession it did not. Australia's ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... drop to 600 or lower this year as the global recession intensifies. Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg joined the chorus and also forecast a similar level for the S&P 500. These predictions, and apparently Warren Buffet's -- the 'sage of Omaha' ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... investors as it doesn't compare investment options like-for-like. UniSuper chief executive, Terry McCredden, joined the chorus of firms that rejected APRA's comparison reporting because of the inconsistencies in how funds define growth and defensive ...

MLC launches into after-tax reporting

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
With the growing chorus of calls for investment managers to report after-tax returns, MLC has announced it will start reporting after-tax returns for a number of its products beginning immediately. From this month, MLC will begin reporting monthly after-tax ...