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Super fund goes nuts for returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... agricultural investment to be the last. First State Super was advised in the transaction by Lander & Rogers Lawyers and Blue Sky Water Partners, a division of Blue Sky Alternative Investments. Select Harvests was advised by PPB Advisory and Minter El ...

Senate inquiry into gender retirement income gap launched

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
Issues around Australia's gender retirement income gap are expected to be reviewed by March next year after the Senate was instructed to conduct an inquiry yesterday. A cross-party motion by Senators Jenny McAllister (Labor), Sean Edwards (Liberal) ...

Water, water everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
Super Thursday. This is the term coined for the Bank of England's (BOE) data dump - announcing the monetary policy committee's (MPC) decision on interest rates, the MPC meeting minutes that led to the decision and the quarterly inflation report all ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... appointed managing director retail distribution at ANZ. ASFA appoints independent chair - Dr. Michael Easson, chair of Icon Water, Actew AGL and EG Funds Management, will replace Jim Minto as chair of The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. ...

ASFA appoints independent chair

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... ASFA Director since November 2009. He will be replaced by Dr Michael Easson from 31 July. Easson is currently chair of Icon Water, ActewAGL and EG Funds Management. He was a former non-executive director of State Super, Asset Super, and Chifley Financial ...

Perth toll road an opportunity for super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... without an increase in both public and private funding of infrastructure, and market reforms to strengthen the transport and water sectors, "we won't have the infrastructure that a growing population and our globally-focused economy deserve." According ...

Government could force QIC to fund Queensland infra

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... said that QIC "currently invests Queensland money in a range of interstate and overseas infrastructure, including Thames Water in the UK and the Ohio University car parking system in the US." He added that QIC is carrying "historically high levels of ...

Lift-off on Carney's mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
It's now safe to go back in the waters... This, perhaps, was what's in Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney mind when, a day after news of the Greek deal, he told the UK Treasury select committee that: "The point at which interest rates may begin ...

Temporary trial separation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
Was that it? No fire sale? Have the financial markets lost their marbles? Haven't they read the headlines about Greece turn from gloom to doom and yet... there were no massive sell orders? Or, not enough buy-ops. Equity markets closed down, a bit, - ...