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FuturePlus secures $2.2bn SERF and SRF mandate

FuturePlus Financial Services (FPFS) has secured the right to manage $2.2 billion for the Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund (SERF) and the Seafarers Retirement Fund (SRF). The $2.2 billion mandate follows former SERF CEO Terry Newson to his new ...

Australian consumption spending now top 5 in the region

Visa Australia says Australian consumption expenditure will top $1.4 trillion this year, following last year's level of $1.3 trillion. If Australia reaches its $1.4 trillion in consumption expenditure, it will be in the top five spenders in the Asia ...

CSA rejects compulsory governance reporting

Chartered Securities Australia (CSA) has rejected the proposed government move to standardise corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting and/or to make it compulsory, because both solutions would merely reduce CSR to a box-ticking exercise. In ...

Daily economic update

Australian house prices rose by 2.1 per cent in the December quarter to stand 2.3 per cent above their level in the same period in 2004. This compares favourably with unchanged prices in the September quarter and market expectations for a 0.8 per cent ...

Lower risks from hedge fund strategies causing a rethink

While global hedge funds continue to outperform global equities, the big news is that they are doing it for only one-third the risk. The latest GreenwichVan Hedge Fund Index report for January 2006 shows that the S&P 500 scored a return, in local currency ...

CBA's new chief information officer has big ambitions

Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has hired a new chief information officer with a brief to integrate the bank's funds management jumble of legacy systems. CBA yesterday said it hired Michael Harte as its new chief information officer. Harte is currently CIO ...

Weekly economic round-up

The Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) statement on monetary policy spelled out the bank's near-term insight for the domestic economy and the future trajectory of local interest rates. In the quarterly statement the RBA lowered its inflation forecast. ...

Talk to us and let's make FSR simpler: Chris Pearce

... gauntlet today, asking ASIC to pass the industry's message back to the Government and promising to cut back the regulatory "red tape" in financial services. Speaking at an ASIC regulation focused summer school, Pearce said setting down "new rules and ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2006
... lowest this year. The Hang Seng index ended up 2.94 points at 15,423.26. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket was a sea of red ink today, as two former market darlings failed to live up to the market's lofty expectations. The benchmark NZSX-50 gross ...

Agribusiness commissions "too high"

The Australian Agribusiness Group (AAG) has called on the industry to reduce commissions charged for agribusiness projects, which can sometimes be as high as 15 per cent. "Today, commissions of 10 per cent to 15 per cent plus rebates for marketing activities ...