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APRA to monitor investment options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... collecting data on benefits in the predetermined sub-set of investment options classified by number of members by age bracket," notes their paper. The regulator has also flagged collecting additional data from defined benefit funds, no doubt fuelled ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... Australia releases its monthly bulletin. The Australian Office of Financial Management tenders 13, 26 and 39 week Treasury notes. Westpac and the Melbourne Institute release the survey of consumer unemployment expectations for May, and the Melbourne ...

Perpetual starts legal proceedings to claim funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... the UK on behalf of more than 1,000 retail investors who invested in $125 million worth of credit-linked Mahogany Capital notes that were sold by Grange Securities. Perpetual, the security trustee and note trustee of the Mahongany Notes I, took the action ...

Future Fund seeks debt expert

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... looking to recruit a senior analyst specialising in debt and hedge funds. A recent statement on the Future Fund website notes that the fund is hunting for a senior analyst to focus on manager research in the debt and hedge funds space. "This is a unique ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... Construction Index for April. The Australian Office of Financial Management donducts tenders for 13, 26 and 39 week Treasury notes, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics labour force data for April is due. In Sydney, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco ...

Finance job market to recover by 2010

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... financial services recruitment will start to rebound before mid next year, a new survey shows. Research by Morgan McKinley notes that almost nine out of 10 or 88 per cent of Sydney employers are optimistic about a job market recovery as early as mid ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... agencies still are after contributing to the pain that we all now must endure? And this is not the first time. Wikipedia notes that 'Enron's rating remained at investment grade four days before the company went bankrupt, despite the fact that credit ...

Charged for no AFSL

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... commenced proceedings against four former Queensland directors who dealt in financial products, including Westpoint promissory notes, without an Australian financial services licence (AFSL). Barry William Silver, of Arundel, Robert Peers Button (also ...

Sustainability grows in EMs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... in environmental, social and corporate governance factors in their investment decisions in emerging markets. The research notes that sustainable investments now account for over $428 billion or nearly 10 per cent of total investments last year in EMs. ...

S&P withdraws two UBS ratings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... scale," said Leanne Fook, S&P Fund Services, regarding UBS Global Asset Management's infrastructure fund. "Overall, S&P notes the international infrastructure sector is experiencing reasonable growth and investors are continuing to express strong interest ...