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Bribery and corruption policies hard to find

On the back of the AWB scandal, research from the Centre for Australian Ethical Research (CAER) reveals that only half of Australia's largest companies have policies banning bribery or corruption. The research, which looked at companies in the S&P/ASX ...

Local and global equities fuel returns: SelectingSuper

... international equities option has also narrowed the gap posting 21.4 per cent. SelectingSuper's associate director of research, Andrew Keevers, said that the key take-aways were that the majority of super members are getting strong, double digit returns ...

Barclays Global Investors grows equities team

... with JP Morgan after spending more than 10 years with the organisation, a large part of that as head of the quantitative research team.

IFSA to pressure Government for super tax breaks

... "Reduction of the contributions tax would be a good thing for reducing this gap," he said. The comments follow new IFSA research that has forecast the result of reducing front-end tax would create an increase in superannuation savings of $2.51 for each ...

Industry and retail fund bickering needs to stop: Planners

... retail funds need to stop bickering and instead serve consumers as a homogeneous front. On the same day that IFSA released research revealing that the nation's retirement savings still fall short by a mammoth $452 billion, or $93,000 per person, the ...

Flexibility but at a great price - the Virgin Mortgages way

... cheapest among home loans with redraw facilities and split options according to Cannex. But Baxby said that their initial research on their target market, those in their 20s to 40s, want a product that may not necessarily be the cheapest but the most ...

Australians are starting their retirement saving too late: Citibank

Citibank research has revealed that 19 per cent of semi or fully retired Australians have no retirement savings, while 44 per cent of retirees regret not starting to save for their retirement much earlier. The staggering numbers are revealed in the ...

Macq eyes $150bn rural property as competitive asset class

With its uncanny knack for spotting relatively untapped investment opportunities, Macquarie Bank plans to launch a wholesale fund aimed at the $150 billion rural property sector. The bank has researched the sector for 18 months to find out if its cash ...

Select's alternatives "recommended"

Select Asset Management's (Select's) Alternatives Portfolio fund has been given "recommended" ratings from research houses, Lonsec and Zenith. The Alternatives Portfolio is a multi manager fund using selected listed and direct investments, including ...

Counterpoint bolsters team

... to the three principals of Counterpoint - Peter Williamson, John Parrish and Philip Chow. According to Counterpoint's research manager, John Parrish, the appointment follows substantial business and client growth since its July 2002 inception. "The appointment ...