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Tonight's the night

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
It's Budget lock-up day tonight in Canberra. The day when the who's who of the Australian economics and the reporting world are held incommunicado for six hours until the grand unveiling of the Government's plan for the future. The official rationale ...

Beware the Budgets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
Phew! That wasn't stressing at all. In the end, the official announcement of the results of the stress test conducted on 19 of America's biggest banks became a sort of anti-climax for the equity markets. Where to from here? The verdict? Ten of the 19 ...

Sunsuper upgrades retirement program

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Sunsuper, a fund that more than doubled in pension members during the 2007/08 financial year, has launched a pension product with an asset allocation that reflects post-retirement investor needs. Dubbed the Today and Tomorrow strategy; when investors ...

Vanguard enters ETFs fray

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
Vanguard Investments Australia will go head to head with local exchange traded funds (ETFs) incumbents iShares and State Street when it launches three new ETFs on the ASX tomorrow. The group, which is already one of the largest providers of ETFs in ...

Rio Tinto Super adds Alcan Gove members

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
The $2.3 billion Rio Tinto Staff Superannuation Fund will soon receive a $135 million boost to its assets under management when it opens its doors to members of the Alcan Gove Superannuation Plan tomorrow. From 1 May, all Alcan Gove Superannuation Plan ...

The good in the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Sometime ago, I quoted Camp Quality's - an Australian children's family cancer charity organization - TV ad, 'Don't underestimate the power of optimism'. Wall Street lived this statement overnight with both the S&P 500 and the Dow rising by more than ...

UK pensions turn to alternatives

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... risks associated with the investment of institutional assets and brought counterparty credit risks more into focus," said Tom Geraghty, European head of investment consulting at Mercer.

S&P awards Bennelong fund 'three star'

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... to implement the investment process. Its multilingual skill set also partly mitigates its size and single location," said Tom Mills, S&P Fund Services analyst.

Barclays sells iShares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
Barclays has sold the firm's exchange traded fund (ETF) iShares business to Blue Sparkle, a partnership established by CVC Capital Partners, for just over $6 billion. Net proceeds from the transaction will be retained by Barclays to enhance the firm's ...

Model your retirement: Sunsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
Sunsuper has launched a retirement modeller that projects members' retirement income and lifestyles. Sunsuper, which has around $13 billion in assets, last month unveilled a new retirement modeller to help members understand if they are on track for ...