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UK multi-asset favourite pushes for super fund mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
One of the UK and US's best selling managed investment funds is now being marketed to Australian institutional investors. The Standard Life Investments Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) fund has attracted more than $30 billion funds under management ...

Refresher pause?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
I don't know if you're feeling what I'm feeling but I feel that the S&P 500 index is being quite a tease the past few days. While the Dow just went and did it - broken its record - the S&P 500 continues in flirt mode, heading towards it but not really ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
The Australian share market has opened slightly stronger after US markets continued to climb to new highs. The early gains were being held back by some nervousness in the financial sector and weakness among mining stocks, IG Markets strategist Stan ...

Same Day Money loses credit licence

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has cancelled the Australian Credit Licence (ACL) of Cairns-based business Same Day Money. Same Day Money director Lawrence James Sullivan has also been banned from engaging in credit activities ...

Need action on diversity not just a policy: ACSI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
The ASX has announced that most major companies now have a gender diversity policy but the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors says that just having a policy isn't enough, it's results that count. The ASX this morning, on International Womens ...

Investors overlook US recovery

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
Investors are underestimating the strength of the US recovery, according to MFS Investment Management's Robert Manning, who believes the success of the world's largest economy will drive stock market returns globally. Manning, who is chairman and chief ...

Hamilton prepares counter-bid for Elders forestry scheme

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
Hamilton Securities Limited is readying a competing bid for the acquisition of the Sandalwood Scheme, an agricultural investment scheme managed by Elders in Western Australia. Elders is under financial pressure to offload the forestry assets and has ...

ICI chief blasts US transaction tax legislation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
US Investment Company Institute (ICI) chief executive, Paul Schott Stevens, has blasted proposals for a transactions tax saying it's bad policy that will cost investors dearly. "A financial transaction tax is bad policy that substantially reduces the ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
I'm an Aussie and I'll cry if I want to. I'll cry if I want to, I'll cry if I want to. My good pal, Alex 'yes we can' Dunnin - Rainmaker's Director of Editorial & Research - emailed me yesterday Malcolm Maiden's piece in the Sydney Morning Herald titled ...

Bluedoor launches SuperStream tech

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
DST Bluedoor announced today the launching of SuperStream, a new technology designed to help address new superannuation reforms by the same name. The product, which enables business-to-business and business-to-government message interactions, will be ...