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AustralianSuper seizes infra leadership

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
Demand for more infrastructure investment creates huge investment opportunities for super funds, and AustralianSuper intends taking a leadership role. The fund has not only announced intentions to appoint four major investment team leaders, including ...

ISS co-founder leaves proxy advice industry

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
A prominent face of the Australia proxy advice industry has signaled his departure after ISS Australian operations co-founder Dean Paatsch announced that he is leaving the governance advisory firm after six years. Paatsch's history is that of being ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... they start buying smaller companies to expand their operations? But alas, rising M&A activity is now considered a negative signal. Here's what Reuters printed. "Analysts said the recent spate of M&A also points to companies continuing to make profits ...

Something for everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
The see on Wall Street sawed again last night. Three days of positive performance wiped out last night. The Dow closed 1.4 per cent lower while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both lost 1.7 per cent. Why? Because the positive outlook on the US economy that ...

Fictional fact

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
Wall Street turned in another good performance last night! No one could be faulted for forming such a conclusion after reading the following headlines: "Stocks Rise on M&A Speculation; Treasuries Pare Gain, Oil Falls" - Bloomberg "Consumer sector lifts ...

Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
And they're off... and running! The bears are back loitering the financial playgrounds hand in hand with the sensationalist media and heads that talk on your PCs, laptops, iPhones or plain old HDTV screens. Apparently we're now just a click away from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
The Australian market has received strong, negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with key market indices all down heavily, oil dropping and only gold amongst key metals showing a rise. At 0710 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September ...

AMP fin centre opens first fee-for-service shopfront

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
AMP has officially opened its retail financial planning centre in Parramatta - giving clients the opportunity to visit a one-stop shop for their planning needs. The centre was officially opened by AMP chief executive Craig Dunn and Parramatta lord mayor ...

Trustees warned as APRA toughens guidances

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
With the ink hardly dry on the Cooper Report's recommendations for a Trustee Code of Practice, the prudential regulator APRA has released revised trustee guidances on capital structures, risk management, resources adequacy and trustee fitness. Following ...

Squared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... This morning's news tell the story of selling on Wall Street because of -- according to The Age - " A surprisingly poor signal on the US jobs market" and US "monthly retail sales reports showed shoppers remain skittish about spending as hiring remains ...