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Concentrated portfolios can benefit HNW

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... financial and industry structure, and finally the attraction of the market's price. A concentrated portfolio of companies such as IBM, Rolls Royce and Google are invested in for the long-term and portfolio turnover is very low by industry standards. ...

Aus Sup to manage 30% of own funds in 5 years

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... of employer and member contributions, market returns, and merger activity. In 2012/13 net cash flows, the AGEST merger and IBM transition will see the Fund grow by approximately $11 billion. AustralianSuper's head of investment operations, Peter Curtis ...

Fin services GDP share to shrink by 2050

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... see the sector contract in national significance. These shock results are contained in a report produced by IBISWorld for IBM called 'A Snapshot of Australia's Digital Future to 20250' that attempts to forecast the impact the ICT revolution will have ...

AustralianSuper wins landmark IBM mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
AustralianSuper has won Australia's largest corporate super outsourcing mandate to manage the $1.7bn IBM staff fund. Subject to due diligence, current IBM Super members and employees will transfer to AustralianSuper effective 1 November 2012. The tender ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... indexes and housing disappointed. Microsoft, General Electric, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley topped earnings estimates but IBM, Intel and Qualcomm fell short of expectations. Spain and France's debt auctions met with solid demand but yields on their ...

Missing the forest for the daily grind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... through with the previous day's gains overnight. Coz real time news headlined disappointing first quarter earnings reports from IBM and Intel and bad news out of Europe. Never mind that IBM's bottom line results and 2012 profit guidance printed more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... at 4,239.6, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 24.4 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 4,303. NEW YORK - Microsoft and IBM drove US stocks up on Friday after the tech giants reported stronger earnings than analysts had expected. The Dow Jones industrial ...

Asia growth to transform business

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... new competitors, partners and customers. Asia will also be a new platform for global business. Dr Gupta said, for example, IBM has 365,000 employees worldwide and almost half of them are based in India with a significant number of these servicing other ...

Former Liberal leader named Equiti Capital chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... and Shadow Minister for Industry and Commerce. Hewson was a founding executive director of Macquarie Bank, a trustee of the IBM Superannuation Fund and director and chairman of a number of public and private companies. In addition to his political background ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... came a day after Wall Street enjoyed its strongest one-day rally this year, driven by robust earnings from companies like IBM and Coca-Cola. Wednesday's big winner was Apple, whose shares surged 2.7 per cent after it reported that its second-quarter ...