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New board at India Equities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
Investors at India Equities Fund voted against the board's proposed return of capital at last Friday's EGM, replacing them with three new directors nominated by shareholder GW Holdings. The directors of India Equities Fund previously said that if shareholders ...

Board diversity gives greater results

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
Board gender diversity correlates with better results, according to ACSI research. Additionally, superannuation investors regard the low level of female board participation as an investment issue. US Fortune 500 Company boards report nearly twice the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
The Australian share market looks set to fall when it opens on Wednesday after Wall Street resumed its slide due to the falling value of the euro. At 0746 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 52 points lower at ...

Sell in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
"Sell in May then go away." It has to happen this month, doesn't it? Every time the fifth moon of the year is upon us, theories, studies and reports proving or disproving this quotation come a-visiting. By merely stating this observation, I guess I ...

Acadian counts corp governance risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
Boston-based Acadian Asset Management has added another quantitative measure to its investment process to gauge corporate governance risk within listed companies. The 'management behaviour' measurement allows the team to evaluate the quality of a company's ...

Ausbil Dexia Aus equities in high demand

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Ausbil Dexia, which manages $11.5 billion in Australian equities, has closed its flagship investment funds to new institutional clients after opening the investment strategies briefly last year. Paul Xiradis, chief executive and head of equities at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
Australian markets have received negative leads overall from overseas since Friday's local session. At 0807 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was down seven points at 4,694. In economics news on Monday, the ...

Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
"War is over, if you want it, want is over now" (John Lennon) Wall Street have resumed its upward trek after tripping some weeks back as number crunchers lowered company profit expectations and the dumping of warm bodies on the unemployment heap continued ...

Fund manager pioneers voice technology

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
Aviva Australia has teamed up with technology providers NEC and Salmat VeCommerce to use voice biometrics as a way to service its clients. The partnership means when Aviva's customers call their voice is automatically verified when they say their password. ...

Treasury boutiques gain inflows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
Treasury Asia Asset Management (TAAM), RARE Infrastructure and Orion Asset Management have received inflows in the past month after a seven-month dry spell, suggesting some instos are dripfeeding capital back into boutiques. "Clients were frozen for ...