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SWIFT slashes messaging cost

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
SWIFT, the provider of global financial messaging services, is planning to reduce its price of messaging on its core FIN service by an average of 20 percent next year. According to the company, the 20 per cent reduction is part of a targeted 50 percent ...

Hedge fund adviser gets $2.7m fine

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
A US hedge fund adviser will have to cough up $2.7 million to settle SEC charges for breaching short selling rules. The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday charged Dallas-based Carlson Capital for breaching a regulation which prevents short ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
There were snippets of good news overnight although on the whole, they were just that -snippets. Bad news dominated the headlines. There was more of the same confusing data out of America. Jobless claims rose by 12,000 in the week ending 18 September ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading, with Wall Streets's key indices lower, but precious and base metals were higher. Oil fell slightly. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, at 0747 AEST, the December share price index contract ...

AMP buys Sydney office for Sunsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Sunsuper has expanded its direct property mandate with AMP Capital Investors following a $100 million Sydney CBD office acquisition. AMP Capital Investors' Property Portfolio Services has a mandate with Sunsuper to manage a diversified, direct property ...

CommInsure wins industry fund mandates

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
CommInsure has won two mandates to provide risk insurance services to industry funds Care Super and Vision Super. Vision Super has appointed CommInsure for the fund's self-insured death and total and permanent disablement (TPD) insurances. This deal ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
All dressed up and nowhere to go. Yup! Wall Street went nowhere alright. A day before last night's Federal Open Market Committee Meeting (FOMC), Wall Street was all prepped, seemingly ready to take it all, whatever the Fed decides - or more, importantly ...

ETF portfolio vs Future Fund portfolio shows gap

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
In an experiment to see how a retail investment portfolio made up mainly of ETFs compares with the Future Fund's portfolio, Financial Standard discovers key investment gaps. David Bassanese, director of PennyWise Investment Economic & Investment Consulting ...

One in five ignore super accounts

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Nearly 20 per cent of Australians have no idea how many super funds they currently have, new research from REST Super shows. A new online snap poll of more than 600 REST Superannuation members has found that an alarming one in five have no clue how ...

Future Fund rebounds

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Excluding its holdings in Telstra, the Future Fund posted a 10.6 per cent return in the year to 30 June, compared to a decline of 4.2 per cent in the preceding year, according to a portfolio update. The fund's total assets stood at $67.3 billion, compared ...