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MySuper: industry not dead if proper action taken

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
Under the Government's MySuper legislation, it is vital for corporate super specialists to engage with their clients and focus on exited members, warns CESSA. Douglas Latto, president at the Corporate Super Specialist Alliance (CESSA) said that the ...

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
Australia's trading session had already called it off for the week when the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the better-than-expected scorecard for the economy. But don't despair Virginia, we didn't miss much. Better ...

High frequency trading benefits: UK government

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
The overwhelming majority of financial professionals say high frequency trading (HFT) is unfair, according to a new survey, but research from the UK government shows that computer automated investment has market benefits. According to a recent survey ...

Russell ups risk in equity ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
Russell Investments has dumped five defensive stocks in its latest rebalance of its value index, anticipating growth in riskier assets. Russell reconstitutes the weightings to stocks in its Russell Australia High Value and Australia High Dividend indices ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street was trading slightly in the red overnight but European stocks closed higher as traders digested mixed economic data before the outcome of the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting. ...

Standard Risk Measure misleading

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
Investors may have already been misled by the Standard Risk Measure adopted by superannuation funds, said research house Van Eyk. Anomalies are caused by funds being able to choose how they calculate the risk of a product, said Van Eyk's head of strategic ...

Govt to pay interest on lost Super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
The government has taken steps to ease the corrosive impact of fees and inflation on funds left in forgotten super accounts with new measures announced in its mid-year Budget update. The government has raised the threshold below which funds in inactive ...

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. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Aust stocks 0.73% lower at noon The Australian share market was lower at noon after falls in Europe and drops in commodity prices. At 1201 on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 33.2 points, or 0.73 per cent, at 4,637.9 points, while the ...

Future Fund tarred by its tobacco stocks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
An otherwise robust performance by the Future Fund was undermined this week when its senior executives were forced to justify their tobacco investments before a Senate Committee. Appearing before the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Senate ...