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NSW budget to focus on creating infra deals

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
The New South Wales state budget will tackle the lack of investment opportunities in infrastructure, with the aim of luring funds back from interstate and overseas projects. NSW Treasurer Mike Baird is believed to have brokered a deal with State Super ...

Perpetual argues for insto outcome focus

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... many players," said Blayney. "So, you end up with excessive diversification within asset classes that results from a lot of focus and attention on the last little bit of your risk when the endless amount of resources deployed in trying to get that right ...

Australian shares outperform all other asset classes

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... consequences of their investment strategies. Liddell said the legislation was recognition of the significant impact an after-tax focus can have on member returns and this issue was just as important for retail investors. Illustrating this point, the ...

New switching device cuts latency

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... network time now matters much more, said Rose, where savings represent a higher portion of time budgets for trading firms. The focus on low-latency has resulted in a stripping out of all non-essential functionality for the trader, according to David ...

Asteron re-focuses group risk strategy

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
Asteron Life has updated its group risk strategy to move focus to the corporate superannuation fund and platform provider market. According to Asteron Life, group risk is an important part of its strategy to build distribution reach and capability in ...

Bennelong names new CFO

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... role of senior fund accountant, joining from Mercer, and Angela Cavuoto has joined the team as an assistant accountant to focus on corporate level accounting.

Lonsec changes index funds research process

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... ensure ratings fully capture the characteristics of index funds." Although using different criteria, Lonsec will continue to focus primarily on qualitative factors, which is the key focus of its research across all asset classes. "There will continue ...

APRA: Third line of defence in Trio-style fraud

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... mitigating risks." Jones said that APRA's mandated investigative reach fell short of preempting the Trio fraud. "APRA's focus is on governance of funds, the fitness and propriety of responsible persons, and investment policy," he said. "Supervision based ...

Investors missing the eurozone silver lining

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... multinationals are less correlated with their domestic macroeconomic outlook than the market appears to believe." Despite all the focus on what's going wrong in Greece, the last panic in September 2011 showed that panic-induced selling can present attractive ...

APRA releases final form prudential standards

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has released a set of prudential standards in final form, and a response paper as part of its review of capital standards for general and life insurers. The aims of Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's ...