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Super your stimulus package

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
"Boost your super with the Government's $900 handout" is becoming the catchphrase of superannuation funds as they encourage members to pour more into super. The $3 billion Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund is urging its members to consider ...

CSRF supports Catholic Schools Week

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund is partnering with Catholic Schools Week in 2009 to help boost super and financial literacy. This year marks the third time CRSF will be supporting the dioceses of New South Wales and ACT in their promotion ...

Infrastructure fund beats downturn

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
The Private Capital Group's infrastructure fund, which counts heavyweights Sunsuper, Suncorp and BUSS(Q) among its clientele, has defied the market slump to report a 9.6 per cent return over a one year period to 31 December 2008. The Infrastructure ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... Group/Commonwealth Bank Australian Performance of Services Index (Australian PSI) for October is due. On the company front, CSR Ltd releases its first half results. Companies hosting annual general meetings include West Australian Newspapers Holdings ...

PRI members push CSR movement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) signatories are using their collective $6 trillion investment might to persuade around 9,000 companies to sign a set of corporate social responsibility standards. The 52 strong group wrote ...

Symantec ramps up CSR

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... its first ever corporate responsibility report released this year. Among the group's key corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives this year include consolidating Symantec's data centre to gain energy savings of more than 300,000 kWh/month. The ...

CSRF chases alpha

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) awarded Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and BlackRock Investment Management a $100 million mandate each to capture short-term equity market opportunities. The mandates were allocated to the BGI ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... Institute index of consumer inflation expectations for June is also due. In company news, thermal coal company APAC Coal lists. CSR Ltd holds its annual general meeting. United Group Ltd managing director Richard Leupen addresses the American Chamber ...

Australia gets Chinese QDII status

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Australian financial services operators will now get direct access to Chinese domestic investment funds after Australia was approved as an official investment destination under the Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) scheme. The QDII scheme ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... traditional post-Budget address at the National Press Club in Canberra. In equities, building products and sugar producer CSR is to deliver full year results this morning, and Singapore Telecommunications, the parent of phone company Optus, is to deliver ...