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Instos want more rewards for low-carbon assets

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
A group statement signed by 259 global investors, with collective assets totalling over US$15 trillion, calls for stronger policies to incentivise more private capital going into sustainable investments The group statement expresses concern for "risks ...

Fed & RBA on the ball

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... gotten it right -- our very own Reserve Bank of Australia did too. Remember the consensus bet that the RBA will not raise interest rates on Melbourne Cup Day... but then it did? Latest wages data show that it got it right. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' ...

Median Australian shares fund down: Mercer

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... Billiton up 7.9 per cent, leading the resources sector for the second consecutive month, which Mercer attributed to QE2 interest and the low US dollar. Furthermore, small cap stocks outperformed mid cap and large cap stocks, 3.3 per cent compared to ...

Cormann blasts ALP over default super

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... superannuation funds." Cormann said this may be in the best interests of the union movement, but is not necessarily in the public interest. The Productivity Commission is expected to focus its review on developing suitable objective criterea companies ...

Fees on SG super should be cost-recovery: IPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Fees on compulsory superannuation should be slashed to only be on the basis of cost-recovery, said the conservative think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Sinclair Davidson, a senior fellow at the IPA and professor of institutional economics at ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... inflation. Speculations are that this would include food price controls, a crackdown on commodity speculation, raising interest rates or all of the above. OMG! This would mean Chinese growth - the strongest driver of global growth this cycle - is going ...

Thanks but no thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... to resolve this issue," before the deficit - currently at US$1.3 trillion - creates a bond market crisis that pushes interest rates up and pushes America into a double-dip. What? Not the DD-word again! These are both very logical rationales for the Treasury ...

CareSuper and ME take it to the streets

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
CareSuper talks to members in a local shopping mall in a bid to generate interest in super and financial advice. CareSuper has stepped up member services with an outreach approach alongside Members Equity (ME) bank, setting up in a ME branch to provide ...

Dark pools get darker

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
So-called 'dark pool' providers ITG and Instinet have announced a reciprocal liquidity access agreement that will allow each firm's institutional clients increased liquidity opportunities in Asia-Pacific. Instinet clients will use the firm's NighthawkA(R) ...

Gen Yers want advice

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
If you think the majority of people who seek insurance and consolidation advice are older Australians, then think again - new research shows fund members aged 25 and below are the primary seekers of single issue advice. John McMurtrie, chief executive ...