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Bank guarantee must stay in place

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
The government should resist pressure to change the guarantee on wholesale bank funding, according to the head of debt capital markets at a leading investment bank. A director in capital market origination at Citi, David Bailey, said arguments that ...

Super is for income, not wealth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
Super funds should start reporting their performance based on how much income they can provide to members on retirement, not on how much they return in the intervening period when the savings are locked up, said a US-based retirement expert. Don Ezra ...

GFC Problem solved

... the G20 meeting in November last year? The plan was almost identical, except this time there was US$1 trillion cash on the table. One thing that stood out at the time was their promise not to resort to protectionism. What happened since then? The World ...

Seven deadly sins

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... wrath and envy go hand in hand. The lack of transparency, particularly among alternative assets has been swept under the table because people have become complacent in good times. Some are in denial, and are angry about the situations in the market and ...

Pearce rejects "sloppy" league tables

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Shadow minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law, Chris Pearce has sided with IFSA in slamming the government's proposed plan to publish superannuation option performance tables. He said the government's chosen method is "sloppy" ...

Gloves off ahead of APRA report

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... investment opportunities. Henaghan said that the fund's underperformance, which will likely be reported in the APRA leagues table to be released this year, has prompted the firm to start talking to its members more to explain their new strategy. "I'm ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
The global financial crisis has widened the performance gap between the best and worst performing default workplace super funds to 36 per cent, treble their historic difference, according to SelectingSuper data. The latest SelectingSuper super fund ...

Corporate super adjusts to crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
Corporate master trusts are going back to the negotiating table to cater for clients that have suffered large-scale redundancies due to the market downturn. Greg Healy, AMP's director of corporate superannuation, said that there have been cases where ...

Property re-pricing to come in waves

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... director, recommended that institutional investors that hold property assets directly should go back to the negotiating table with their tenants to review terms. "LaSalle recommends 'back to basics' portfolio management, which means managing liquidity ...

Mandate to the Future

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... environment for credit is probably the best." "It's pricing in the worst, if you like, so if we're going to put risk on the table, that feels like one of the better places to put it right now." But the fund's debt portfolio looks to be the exception ...