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Clear lines between ratings and research

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
Credit rating agencies and financial product research houses play vastly different roles when it comes to assessing the value of an investment, said Property Investment Research (PIR). Last week, the government ordered a review of ratings agencies and ...

SSgA exchange traded funds rise 33pct

Exchange traded funds (ETFs) is officially a billion-dollar industry for the local arm of State Street Global Advisors after the investment manager reported its "Spider" ETFs rose 33.1 per cent to reach $1 billion over the 12 months to May. It took ...

REST and First State Super seed St Hilliers No. 4

Property fund manager St Hilliers defied the property doom and gloom when it staged its largest equity raising this week thanks to a $200 million cash injection from super funds REST and First State Super. The Sydney-based company, ranked 95th in the ...

Buck stops with trustees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Even though trustees of retail and not-for-profit super funds are subject to the same laws, they have evolved different ways of executing their roles, said Senator Nick Sherry minister for superannuation and corporate law. The operational differences ...

CommSec extends its reach

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Commonwealth Bank executive general manager for private client services, Edward Tait, describes the bank's online brokerage CommSec as a financial services supermarket. At an analysts' briefing yesterday Tait outlined plans to stock the supermarket ...

Temp residents worse off from new super rules

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
The Federal Government's proposed superannuation changes for temporary residents could divert up to $1 billion to the Australian Tax Office and hinder Australian businesses' effort to attract skilled overseas workers, according to Deloitte. Sarah Lane ...

Defence Housing open for instos

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
Defence Housing Australia (DHA) is reviewing its strategy and opening doors for institutional investors looking to invest in its $7 billion property portfolio. Conventional "mum and dad" retail investors have traditionally made up the majority of DHA ...

AUI and Wingate form JV

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) and Melbourne-based private investment and advisory firm Wingate Group are embarking on a joint venture to form a boutique international equities fund manager. Subject to unit holder approval, the joint venture will ...

BankWest's recruitment drive on track

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
BankWest's financial planning business has recruited 27 financial planners since its inception in December last year and is on schedule to have a financial planner in each branch, according to Mark Reid, BankWest head of retail. Reid said BankWest's ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
People arguing that Australia should relax its inflation targets are peculiar and misguided, argues Ken Henry, secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. Henry's comments, in a speech he gave yesterday to a forum of Australian Business Economists in Sydney ...