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Super mergers drive new trends in asset consulting

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
Rising M&A activity in superannuation is forcing asset consultants to lift their game or risk being edged out by their rivals - and the leading players are future-proofing their business through bigger investment teams and sharpened investment models. ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
It's a wrap. The first quarter of 2011 is officially ended and it's another victory for the bulls. And that's no bull. Here's a pop question. As an investor what would you do if on 31 December 2010, you were given a list of all the events that will ...

Equiti to launch US multifamily property fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
Global property specialist Equiti Capital Limited brings US multifamily property to Australia through a new fund. The investment potential in US multifamily housing, typically a complex of multiple apartments owned by a single entity, be it a wealthy ...

Westpac offers carbon trade platform

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
Westpac introduces carbon trading platform to Australian market after joining with global carbon credit trading exchange, Carbon Trade Exchange. The platform is an electronic interface for the voluntary carbon market that allows companies to trade as ...

S&P rates cash offerings

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
Standard & Poor's Fund Services rates 12 Australian fixed interest cash and cash enhanced offerings with Colonial First State's Wholesale Cash Fund receiving the only five-star rating. The ratings house reviewed seven cash offerings and five cash enhanced ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
The Australian stock market has received a mixed to flat set of leads from overnight trading, with oil pushing higher and gold falling for a fourth consecutive session. At 0750 AEDT, the June share price index contract was up 27 points at 4810 points ...

AMP readies for sale to AXA SA

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
AMP will have the AXA Asia business for just one day before selling it back to AXA SA on April 1. Craig Meller, managing director of AMP financial services said the "marriage of AMP and AXA Australia" was structured like property transaction with the ...

More time needed for Stronger Super side issues: Costello

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
There is not enough time to comprehensively deal with all the issues involved in the implementation of the Stronger Super package by June, the chair of the Federal Government's working group on the super system review has told the Conference of Major ...

SG needed to save retirees: Shorten

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
Thousands of 100-year-old baby boomers will live out their last days in poverty unless superannuation changes are passed, Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has told delegates at the Conference of Major Super Funds. Minister Shorten, who flew to the Gold ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
Want a growth stock, a real growth stock? Look no further than our very own Australian dollar. After hitting parity with the once mighty greenback back in October last year, it drowned when this year's floods devastated most of Queensland, parts of ...