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CFS halts mortgage fund redemptions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
Colonial First State (CFS) has told investors in the $850 million Mortgage Income fund the window to access redemptions has closed after it found a small number of mortgages within the portfolio could become bad debts. A CFS spokesperson said the firm ...

Bookmakers Super boosts liquidity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
Bookmakers Super Fund has improved the liquidity of its balanced investment strategies, increasing the cash levels of its Balanced Pension by more than $10 million to $12 million. The fund's December update said "pleasing progress" had been made to ...

Funds under management post record jump

RAINMAKER GROUP IS THE OWNER OF FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
The value of assets managed by investment managers jumped 9 per cent during the September 2009 quarter to reach $1.39 trillion, the biggest quarterly increase in seven years, according to the latest research from Rainmaker. Rainmaker's upbeat market ...

Members to benefit from standard risk labels: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
Many super fund trustees are supporting the idea of applying standardised risk labels to all their member investment choices, a move that will help fund members better understand the risk they take when switching from one option to the next. ASFA chief ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
Australian shares was marginally in the red at noon on thin trading, after a positive start following better than expected jobs data in the US overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 10.2 points, or 0.22 per cent, at 4,712 points ...

Liar, liar, hedge funds on fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
Rogue hedge funds will lie, cheat and connive to get investor money, and while the regulators lack muscle to stop them, there are ways for pension funds to quickly spot the next Madoff. Professor Stephen Brown, a top academic who presented at a hearing ...

Sell dollars to buy stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
Thud! Thud! Thud! This is the sound of my head banging on my desk. For I'm confused - really very confused. Wall Street again dropped big time last night - well to be more accurate, just bigger than the smaller daily falls we've gone accustomed to over ...

AMP extends Super Easy to employer market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
AMP Financial Services is looking to boost its superannuation footprint, extending its Flexible Lifetime Super Easy product to the employer market. The AMP Flexible Lifetime Super Easy - Employer product is targeted at small to medium employers. The ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
The Australian stock market was higher at noon after strength in the resources sector offset losses in financial stocks. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 12 points, or 0.25 per cent, at 4,767.2, while the broader All Ordinaries had ...

Cheap linkers up for grabs: Credit Agricole

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... expensive to be in this strategy now, especially if you're involved with nominal bonds, [as it] should be convenient to switch," said Vic-Philippe. In Australia, CAAM recently won its first global inflation-linked bonds mandate from multi-manager OptiMix. ...