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Video me up, Scottie

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... teleporting but advances in video conferencing has now made it possible for fund managers to hold life-like video meetings, a major leap from the days of delayed broadcast, blurry video images and dropped-out calls. Melbourne-based telecoms group Telarus ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... cent, to 1,518.42 and the Standard & Poor's 500 index declined 16.58 points, or 2.01 per cent, to a close of 806.34. With no major economic data on tap, the market was digesting gains from Monday's euphoria after President Barack Obama's administration ...

Not-for-profit super funds reign

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... senior research analyst at the University of Sydney and co-author of the report that was launched today at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds, said lower fees and charges frame only part of the NFP sector's success story. Appointed and representative ...

No fast bucks: Costello

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... financial crisis, said Tim Costello, chief executive of World Vision Australia. Costello, who spoke at the Conference of Major Super Funds in the Gold Coast yesterday, said super funds' long term investment mandates place them in the ripe position to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... financial stocks such as banks benefited from expectations of a new US policy to clean up bad American bank debt while the major miners were helped by gains on Asian markets. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 added 84.5 points, or 2.44 per cent, to close at 3,550.3 ...

Super investors stay put: survey

AIST RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... commissioned by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and released at today's AIST's Conference of Major Superannuation Funds at the Gold Coast - found that majority of super fund members are sticking with the same strategy they ...

Euro fixed income ETF assets grow 250 pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
European based fixed income exchange traded fund (ETF) assets under management (AUM) grew 250 per cent to more than $62 billion in just under two years. The latest data from Deutsche Bank found fixed income ETFs grew from just under $18 billion to over ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... reason for the market's pause after such a big surge: It ran out of upbeat economic and corporate news the past two days. The major indices eked out gains for the week. The Fed jolted the market this week with an announcement of plans to buy hundreds ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... Financial and economic conditions remained depressed despite central banks racing with each other to the zero line. Many of the major ones are now there. Others are fast catching up. Not so long ago, there was American clamour to institute a 'Buy America' ...

Investment mandates to factor climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
Nine out of ten major super funds have changed or plan to review their investment mandates to reflect climate change issues, a survey found. An Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and Climate Institute survey found 95 per cent of ...