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Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
Go ahead punks, make my day! Did Russian President Vladimir Putin just give the G7 a two-handed one finger salute? This is if latest reports are true that Russia has given Ukraine's military forces in Crimea to surrender or face an all out assault ...

Removal of super from awards top priority: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... questioned whether super members can really be regarded as consumers, especially when they are not choosing their own fund. Tom Garcia, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, which represents the not-for-profit super ...

Mmm bargains, hmm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
Wall Street bounces as bargain hunters pounce. I could stop right here, thank you very much but, alas, I have a number of words quota to fill so here we go. Yes Virginia, Wall Street clawed back some of the previous day's losses - the S&P 500 up 0.8% ...

Global economy on a knife edge

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014

Bentham AM nabs analyst from GMO

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
Bentham Asset Management appointed a former GMO analyst as Systems and Database analyst. Tommy Tam was global investment manager GMO Quantitative Systems analyst and Portfolio trader within the Australian Equities Strategies division. Before joining ...

Frontier market corporate governance greatly improved

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
Greater local competition, improved governance and the involvement of institutional investors has greatly increased the investment prospects of the world's frontier markets, according to emerging market specialist Advance Emerging Capital. Frontier ...

Fear not the fugly jobs report

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014

HESTA and Cbus take AIST top awards

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013
... at their membership and created a campaign that was innovative, well-targeted and useful for members," AIST chief executive Tom Garcia said. Cbus won the Communication Award- Annual Report also for the second year in a row, with the judges describing ...

Government targets super in awards, board independence

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... MySuper default fund if they wish and employees have complete freedom to select their own individual super fund." Meanwhile, Tom Garcia, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, defended current governance practices. "We ...

Industry bodies clash over pension age

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013
... pull and rising the age pension age may not be the best one and shouldn't be considered in isolation," AIST chief executive Tom Garcia said. "Lifting the retirement age in isolation is a very blunt measure that could unfairly penalise low income earners ...