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CPSA brands super centre wasteful

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
Government plans to deploy the interest from a $10 million fund earmarked for a Superannuation Consumer Centre won't get close to adequately protecting the interests of consumers, according to the Combined Pensioners & Superannuants Association (CPSA). ...

Too much ado over MYEFO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
Dissected, defended, derided. The MYEFO (Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook) 2012-2013 received all these, and then some. It's good. It's bad. It's a revenue grab. It's responsible policy. It's a fiscal drag. It'll lower interest rates. Be scared. ...

Searching for conviction: Premium China study tour

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Premium China Funds Management (PCFM) has just wrapped up a study tour of China, which saw more than 50 Australian financial advisers get a first-hand feel of two cities in a country that's never far from the headlines. While its economic strength is ...

BOQ not a takeover target: Grimshaw

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Bank of Queensland (BOQ) is not a takeover target, and the worst is behind it, said its chief executive, after the bank became the first in two decades to post a loss. Stuart Grimshaw, BOQ chief executive officer, denied speculation that the bank would ...

UK becoming OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower after European equities fell on Friday, hit by a lack of rapid progress towards full EU banking union at a key summit and Wall Street's Nasdaq was pulled down more than two per cent by a tech stock rout ...

BoQ first Aussie bank to post loss in 20 years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
The losses, which were carried over from the first half of 2012 despite the bank returning to profit in the second, have been blamed on bad loans and plunging property prices in Queensland, as well as on a slowing economy. The last instance of an Australian ...

Future Fund 'under-resourced' on climate risks

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
Still smarting over a Senate Committee gruelling over its tobacco investments, the Future Fund - the largest fund in Australia - is being accused of insufficient transparency over climate-change risk mitigation within its portfolio. A FOI search two ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower after mixed performances on international markets overnight following promising growth data from China and news that troubled Spain was holding a bond auction at lower borrowing rates. At 0800 AEDT on Friday ...

NZ Super fund breaks $20bn

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
The New Zealand Superannuation fund breached the $20 billion mark setting an end-of-month record for September. The fund, which is managed by Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation, was set up by the New Zealand government in 2003 to help pay for the ...