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Super funds eye catastrophic investing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... more than US$1.4 billion on behalf of insto clients. "Non-correlated risk is very hard to achieve and the global financial crisis was a good example of how difficult it is to achieve," he said. "That's why there's a strong interest by our client base ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... for spendthrift Americans. But as we now learned, this all ended in tears - bucketfuls of it - as the global financial crisis took its toll first on financial markets and then on entire economies. So what now? Given the current investment environment ...

Frontier takes tough stance against asset-based fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... relationship to the performance that the client ultimately receives." The asset consultant said that the global financial crisis exposed the flaws in the asset-based fee model. "Under this structure, fund managers benefit disproportionately as the market ...

Super saved the economy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... services, Chris Bowen at Parliament House in Canberra. "The Australian economy would not have weathered the global financial crisis nearly as well, without the influence of superannuation," ASFA chief executive, Pauline Vamos said. "The research clearly ...

Asian instos question external managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... approximately 87 per cent - is managed internally by the region's large institutions. Prior to the outbreak of the global financial crisis, Asia's institutions were almost unanimous in their intent to increase the amount of assets outsourced to external ...

D'Aloisio nominated Joint Forum chair

COMPANY RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... superannuation and corporate law, said this nomination is recognition of Australia's constructive role in global financial crisis. "Australia has been an active voice in the global economic community that has recently seen G-20 - of which Australia is ...

Global funds lose $20trn to GFC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
The global financial crisis wiped out nearly $20 trillion from the assets of the world's top 500 fund managers, new research found. Funds managed by the world's largest 500 fund managers fell by over 23 per cent last year to US$53.4 trillion ($60 trillion) ...

Financial Standard finalist in ACSI Media Award

... 2), looked at how widespread poor governance practices and unethical behaviour were at the root of the global financial crisis. In the article, Hobbs spoke to the super funds fed up with seeing long-term shareholder wealth destroyed due to excesses in ...

Aussies follow Brits pushing advice aside

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... according to Guardian Financial Planning. Guardian executive manager Steve Browning said one year into the global financial crisis there is still an alarming amount of people who are not seeking out advice and taking control of their finances. "The British ...

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... and think that they're going to be passive observers of whatever you do." Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the global financial crisis has forced rich industrialised nations to share governance of the global economy with their less rich peers. But as Volcker ...