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Labor's $30bn secret super tax plan revealed

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann is calling on Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten to come clean to Australians that they have to pay $30 billion in increased super taxes to assist the Labor government to pay for its $120 billion budget black ...

AustSuper adds hedge IEq option

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
AustralianSuper has added a new investment option, hedged international shares, taking their number of investment choices to 18, including their direct share low-cost platform. The expanded choice menu now offered by AustralianSuper makes their menu ...

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
Here you go again, u-huh, scaring us again, u-huh. Can you feel it, can you feel it, can you feel it? Sure you can, it's all over the place - Chicken Little is going around crying "the sky is falling" (again). You can't miss it, not even if you close ...

Omega bullish on sovereign investing

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
Investors are encouraged to leave their fear of sovereign investing at the door as a shift in the global government bond market indicates promises of reliable returns, new Omega Global Investors research has shown. Despite the European government bond ...

Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
It's been a month -- or thereabouts -- since the European Central Bank -- followed by the US Federal Reserve followed by the Bank of Japan -- gave financial markets what they wished, prayed and hoped for and fired the first salvo of quantitative easing. ...

EM debt not to be overlooked: HSBC

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
Emerging market debt and its benefits should not be overlooked by Australian institutional investors, said senior HSBC investment heads. While most are well versed in emerging market equities, many have questioned whether the returns outweigh the risks ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
'Twas raining data updates over the past 24 hours. Eco stats and surveys flooded cyberspace unrelentingly, one after the other, and yet near-term visibility remains almost... invisible. Take your pick Virginia. There are numbers to back up the "we're ...

Liquidity comes at a price: Certitude

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
The net effect of manufacturing liquidity to meet investors' desire for access to their funds at short notice is insufficient diversification and reduced investment performance, says Craig Mowll, CEO of Certitude Global Investments. Mowll claims that ...

Vanguard makes index switch

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
In the largest international index provider benchmark switch ever, Vanguard is moving six international stock index funds from MSCI to FTSE and 16 US stock and balanced index funds to new benchmarks developed by the University of Chicago. Robin Bowerman ...

Paragem signs ex-Securitor practice

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
Independent Australian Financial Services License (AFSL) provider Paragem has signed Ford + Scott Financial Planning Pty Ltd, after the Tasmanian-based business resigned from Westpac's Securitor AFSL. "We've enjoyed a long and successful relationship ...