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Maritime gives members a work out

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
Maritime Super has launched an online education program called 'the gym', joining the growing number of super funds eager to help their members know more about how to manage their savings. The gym is designed to make members 'financially fit' according ...

Trustees call to scrap MySuper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
Two prominent superannuation industry experts have argued that MySuper should be axed, saying it will only worsen member complacency and completely fails to tackle the two major issues in super - engagement and adequacy. David Galbally QC, chairman ...

Politics shape investment choices: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... their investment decisions based on whether they support the political party in power or not, academic research shows. The School of Business finance department from University of Miami released data this month claiming that investors are more likely ...

Bottoms up

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... performance of a country's stockmarket. According to a study in "Triumph of the Optimists" by three academics at the London School of Business, Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, which used more than a century worth of data from 83 countries ...

Rising tide lifts hedge funds in September

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
Despite failing to match the performance of benchmark indices in September, Australian and international hedge funds are out in front, year to date, and on a rolling 12-month basis, new figures show. According to the Australian Fund Monitors Hedge Fund ...

CFSGAM wins $30m mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) has won its first Institutional $30 million Global Resources mandate from Non-Government Schools Super (NGS). The mandate, designed to meet NGS' fund objectives, will focus on the drivers and benefits ...

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... discretionary spending. Worse, Americans were only enticed to spend because of, according to Bloomberg, "Bigger back-to-school discounts, an increase in the number of states offering tax-free holidays and the restoration of extended jobless benefits..." ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... executive John Borghetti is set to speak at a Financial Services Council luncheon in Sydney. Harvard University Business School Professor Robert Kaplan is scheduled to address a Committee for Economic Development of Australia function on performance ...

AMP buys $80m social infra fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
AMP Capital Investors has announced the acquisition of the RBS Social Infrastructure Trust, an Australian public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure fund with an $80 million portfolio of assets. The fund will be renamed the AMP Capital Community ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... cent on average in Septembers. Also, the Wall Street Journal cites finance professor Kenneth French at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business study showing that since 1926, September is "the only month with a negative average return. For each of the other ...