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ESI Super tops up growth and fixed interest

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
The $2.8 billion ESI Super has increased its fixed interest and growth assets allocations across four investment options, following a recent review. ESI Super announced recently that it would open up the fund's stable and capital managed options to ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... the world's biggest. Like many things in China, the exact composition of its foreign exchange reserve holdings is a state secret -- reveal it and you'll be eating yum cha for the rest of your life. Although I recall reading somewhere that two-thirds ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market has received mixed leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street closing weaker but contract prices for oil, gold, silver and copper ending firmer. At 0728 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract ...

City Super appoints Gibson as CEO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2010
The $1.4 billion City Super has appointed former head of ESI Super, Karen Gibson, as chief executive after Ian Prowse resigned. Gibson has been assisting City Super since October 2009 in the role of acting chief executive due to the ill health of the ...

Hold, Fold or Run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2010
"Three coins in a fountain... which one will the fountain bless?" ( Frank Sinatra) It was a down day again on Wall Street overnight. It followed an up day that trailed a down day. Chances are, other markets would follow suit. But under current circumstances ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
The Australian share market is set to rise on Tuesday after Wall Street and some European markets managed small gains despite continuing concerns about the impact of Europe's debt problems on a global economic recovery. At 0731 AEST on the Sydney Futures ...

ASX exec joins Adelaide Equity Partners

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
Dion Silvy, former senior advisor with the Australian Securities Exchange, has joined Adelaide Equity Partners also as senior advisor. Silvy worked at the ASX's headquarters in Adelaide for four years, assisting many of South Australia's listed entities ...

Mining royalties should go into SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
With the uproar surrounding the government's proposed 'mining super profits' tax, a less controversial solution may be putting mining royalties directly into an Australian sovereign wealth fund. Speaking on the ABC TV discussion program Q&A this week ...

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
How do you solve a problem like Athena? The bears are slowly coming back from the woodworks as the vigilantes of the bond market train their crosshairs from Greece to other Eurozone countries. And we're all getting caught in the crossfire. Is that doom ...

New chairman for AvSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
The $1 billion-plus AvSuper has appointed Tom Grant as its new chairman, following the retirement of long serving chairman, David Leggo. According to a press statement, Grant took up his new post at the start of this month. He's been a director of the ...