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Auditions still on for charity RockStar gig

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
The Financial Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) committee is calling for a few more financial services professionals to participate in the 'Who Wants to be a RockStar' charity event on March 21. FICAP's 'Who wants to be a RockStar' competition ...

AustralianSuper threatens to sue the Future Fund

STAFF REPORTER  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
AustralianSuper has threatened to sue the Future Fund over its purchase of a stake in Perth airport, the Australian Financial Review has reported. This morning the Australian Financial Review reported that it had obtained a letter, sent on Monday on ...

Brazilian CB might need to stop shaving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... remains up by 5.2% this year, outperforming those of the BRICs whose share markets, except for China's (up 1.9%), are all in the red this year to date. Russian shares declined by 0.3% while India's equity market is down 2.2%. But Brazil's the biggest ...

Challenger hops on SuperStream gateway

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
The Challenger Retirement Fund has signed up to the electronic SuperStream rollover gateway, a move that could reduce some of its admin costs to a fraction of where they are today. The Fund said it is the first superannuation fund to sign up to the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
The Australian share market continued to rise in morning trade after a strong session on Wall Street and the release of mostly encouraging earnings reports locally. At 1203 AEDT on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 31.1 points, or 0.62 ...

More fund automation after NAB Asset Servicing deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
Over 40 per cent of Australia's fund managers are available for electronic transactions over the Calastone network after National Australian Bank Asset Servicing (NAS) joined the network, Calastone announced yesterday. Calastone is a fund transaction ...

ASIC speeds up misconduct probe

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)'s latest report on the supervision of markets and participants shows that the regulator has significantly reduced the time it takes to start investigations of suspicious market conduct. Of ...

Telstra Super reappoints David Leggo independent chairman

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
The board of Telstra Super has reappointed of David Leggo as independent chairman of the fund. Leggo is a former Trustee of the Year and was appointed Telstra Super independent chairman for the first time in 2010. During the last few years he has overseen ...

Perpetual shares comeback

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
Listed fund manager Perpetual's share price has nearly doubled in less than five months, as the one-year anniversary of serious changes made at the company draws closer. This morning Perpetual shares cost $40.89, just shy of a 100% improvement after ...

HESTA MySuper option gains approval

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
HESTA is the latest fund to be granted approval by the regulator APRA to offer a MySuper product. The option will be centred around the highly successful HESTA Core Pool, an investment choice that already has a long established performance track record ...