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Instos still lukewarm on climate change risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
Eight super funds, including AustralianSuper, are spearheading the move to better assess climate change risks on long-term returns, but the industry, as a whole, is still moving at a glacial pace on all thing carbon, a survey shows. The joint survey ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
The Australian market has received flat to mixed leads from overseas trading, with Wall Street flat, oil and copper down, but precious metals ended higher. At 0739 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was five points ...

Man charged in multi-million dollar fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
Bandidos, a former J.P.Morgan employee and a multi-million dollar swindle of the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme - one man has so far pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge in a $150 million bank fraud case. According to reports from the Sydney ...

ASSET Super appoints union member to board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
ASSET Super has appointed Unions NSW assistant secretary, Chris Christodoulou, to its board. Christodoulou was elected assistant secretary of Unions NSW in October 2008. He joined the union in 1981 after being elected Wollongong Sub-Branch Secretary ...

Up, down, flat trading day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
Wall Street remains on system standby. You can reason one way or the other until you're blue in the face but the fact remains that there wasn't anything new in last night's data releases. It's the same old, same old mix of negatives and positives. Besides ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
"The beat goes on...la de da de da." (Cher) The beat of mixed data that is, but Wall Street is seeing the silver lining in the dark clouds this time. First stop and the most important for the US economy - the consumer. Their personal income rose by ...

Telstra appoints property and Aussie eq heads

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
The $10 billion Telstra Super has appointed former The Myer Family chief investment officer, John Eliopoulos, and Juilliard Group chief operating officer, Greg Lee, to its investment team. The new hires follow the recent appointment of Jim Christensen ...

FuturePlus operations head in shock exit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
The operations head at FuturePlus, Bob Biancardi, left the firm last Friday amid tensions between its two owners, LGSS and EISS, the multi-billion dollar government funds currently locked in a power struggle. It is understood that Biancardi was dismissed ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
"Efxaristo para poli!" That's Greek for thank you very much. What in the world could possibly make European Central Bank President (ECB) Jean-Claude Trichet abandoned the summer sunshine in Sydney - and the company of the 23 other central representatives ...

Synchron grows adviser base by 40pc

COMNPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
Non-aligned dealer group Synchron has increased its adviser numbers by 40 per cent with the appointment of 44 new advisers last year. Synchron now has 154 advisers. The dealer group aims to have 200 advisers on board by Christmas 2010. Of these, 20 ...