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The day the earth moved

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
Floods, cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis, what will Mommy Nature unleash next? By now you've surely read or heard about the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan on 11 March 2011 and is still wreaking havoc on the world's third biggest economy. The ...

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 ...

Lessons from US pension funds in crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
An academic paper that warns five US pension funds could run out of money in less than 10 years due to chronic underfunding and poor returns serves as a precautionary tale for local investors. In a paper published last August titled 'The Liabilities ...

Get into corporate bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
High quality corporate bonds will rise and offer a fresh opportunity for Australian investors over the short to medium term, despite an expected surge in government debt issuance, said Aberdeen Asset Management. Aberdeen predicts Australian corporate ...

Get into corporate bonds: Aberdeen

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
High quality corporate bonds will rise and offer a unique opportunity for Australian investors over the short to medium term, despite an expected surge in government debt issuance, said Aberdeen Asset Management. Aberdeen predicts Australian corporate ...

IOOF quadruples platform reach after Skandia buy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
Financial services group IOOF climbs through the ranks of platforms with the largest share of the non-aligned adviser market when it acquired Skandia Australia and Intech, a move that quadruples its slice of the sub-segment and adds more than $8 billion ...

Instos change mandate strategies

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
The mandate hiring patterns of super funds and investors were on show in the latest Mercer report, which highlighted a renewed focus on currency management, the awarding of larger mandates and the growing popularity of alternative asset managers. According ...

Retail spending is not slowing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
The economy continues to send mixed signals with the latest retail trade figures showing that despite confidence falling and concerns over credit rising we are yet to slow down our spending. According to the ABS, the trend estimate of retail turnover ...

Retirement liabilities dwarf assets six-fold

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Worldwide pension savings might have doubled in the 10 years to 2006 to US$24 trillion but retirement liabilities are estimated to be more than six times that, reveals the State Street Corporation pension industry Vision Report. This disparity illustrates ...

China's pension to dwarf Australia

MICHAEL HOBBS AND CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
It will take China some ten to twelve years to match the size of Australia's $1.3 trillion plus funds management industry but once it does, China's pension industry will "rocket past ours", according to Peter Promnitz, head of Asia Pacific for Mercer ...