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Aus FMs avoid Satyam scandal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
Australian fund managers with an eye on tech stocks dodged the Satyam scandal, with two local fund managers reporting they had no investments in the firm. Fiducian Portfolio Services investment manager, Conrad Burge, said the firm's India Fund did not ...

Insurance still tops: super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
Enhancing insurance products remains a priority for super funds and their providers in 2009 as government and industry funds re-jig their offerings for better member cover. Public sector super provider Super SA for instance has announced the roll-out ...

Impax environment trust hits the market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
BNP Paribas Investment Partners has released Impax Environmental Markets Trust giving Australian investors exposure to a market which the firm expects will benefit from global government environmental policy. UK based Impax Asset Management holds a ...

IFSA backs govt tax proposal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has thrown its support behind a Treasury proposal to provide an optional capital gains tax roll-over concessions to merging super funds. Under existing rules, if a super fund in a prospective ...

Self-fulfilling prophecy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
Media coverage of Australia's employment statistics had been unanimously negative. But is it? The ink has barely dried on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report for December 2008 when headlines flashed one after another about ...

PIS prepares for tough year

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
Professional Investment Services ushers 2009 with a cautious eye on boutiques and a preference for fund managers with good liquidity management as part of its overall investment strategy review. PIS flagged that boutique managers are expected to take ...

New year, new stocks: Suncorp

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
Suncorp Investment Management has dramatically changed the investment line up within its Investment Management Word Equities Trust when it axed 50 per cent of the stocks in the portfolio and reconfigured fund manager allocation. The trust has increased ...

Right on target: Vanguard

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Investors can avoid the pitfalls of emotion-driven investing through target-date funds, according to research from Vanguard. The Vanguard Centre for Retirement Research in the US published a report in November last year that surveyed the portfolios ...

2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Happy new year? Perhaps in 2010. The top central bankers meeting in Basel Switzerland came to the same conclusion yesterday. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet -- wearing his cap as head of the Bank of International Settlements - declared ...

Planners turn to cash and TD funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
Cash and term deposit funds from St George, UBS and Adelaide Bank led the list of Aviva's top 10 funds for net inflows during 2008 while Platinum International Fund and Perpetual Wholesale Industrial Fund suffered the highest level of redemptions over ...