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All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... suggested by the Fed Beige Book that was released overnight. According to the report, "While many districts described the improvements as only moderate, most districts stated that gains were widespread across sectors" and that "Most districts reported ...

LGS and VFMC join 'green' property movement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... effort towards a more resource efficient institutional real estate industry. "Since 2004 LGS has made significant improvements in energy, water, carbon efficiency and waste recycling to our direct property portfolio and we are now starting to see financial ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... night, Bloomberg reported that Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans believes that, "Despite recent improvements to the outlook, we are not yet at that point" when "a change in the stance of monetary policy will be necessary." "Slow ...

Tightrope walker

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... could not risk raising interest rates to fight inflation while ignoring growth. Doing so endangers whatever economic improvements have been achieved to date. But escalating - and persistent - inflation also has a knock out effect on consumer and business ...

Fund managers to face new norm in liquidity

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... disadvantaged," said Valentine. Dark pools, where brokers pool together liquidity from various sources to identify price improvements and spread savings, are becoming increasingly prominent and allow clients to come in and buy stocks directly rather ...

Plum time for corporate super outsourcing

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... MLC/NAB wealth business, also uses an internal 'Six Sigma' efficiency program to deliver productivity and quality improvements as well as staff growth. "We have done a lot of work on efficiency, with our business efficiency model which was possible as ...

SPAA to lift professional standards

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... interpretation of them," he said. "Currently, SMSFs can only borrow against a 'single acquirable asset' and asset improvements are banned. The Queensland floods highlighted the inflexibility of these rules and, unless changes are made to them, or to ...

Telstra Super upgrades insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... its insurance offerings with the most latest improvement designed to benefit members in same-sex relationships. The improvements are part of the fund increasing its level of insurance cover upon the occurrence of a specified life event. "Same sex relationships ...

Russell fast track after-tax investing

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... Kathy Cave, portfolio manager, Australasia at Russell Investments, who said the diversity within the fund and more improvements will make this fund an ideal vehicle for most super funds. "We also have plans to launch it in several different vehicles ...

Value a plus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... policies implemented by the Fed, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England have thus far failed to generate meaningful improvements in their respective economies. The near-term outlook for the economies of the OECD as whole remains one of sub-trend growth. ...