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Ausbil Dexia signs ESG deal with CAER

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... non-European organisation to receive a Voluntary Quality Standard (VQS) badge for its work on assessing ESG and ethical performance of companies. "The agreement with Ausbil Dexia is very exciting. They are a significant investor with considerable experience ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... some impetus, he said. On Wall street overnight, stocks closed lower as traders weighed expectations about the performance of the US economy after a warning from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones Industrial Average index was off 21.72 points at 10,739.31 ...

Challenger to open redemptions on mortgage fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... currently have redemptions on hold, any release in liquidity is a positive for investors. "And if it improves the performance of the fund by reducing the cash drag, then that's a positive for those who want to remain in the fund," he said. In tandem ...

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... of China's heavy appetite for Australia's major export - resources. And this is being reflected by the shining performance of the S&P/ASX 300 Resources - which had increasingly become more positively correlated with Chinese industrial production since ...

Challenge your consultants on ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... be the other way around," he said. He quotes the example of a Wall Street Journal league table that tracked the performance of international investment banks in 2008 - and how the analysts' stock picks performed over one year. Kiernan said the best performing ...

More governance needed on remuneration

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... in its CEO Pay in the Top 100 Companies: 2009 report studied the remuneration of five highest paid CEOs with the performance of their companies, and that of the five lowest paid CEOs from the top 100 ASX listed firms. The research, conducted by ISS ...

Fidelity Australia nearly doubles FUM

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
Fidelity Australia nearly doubled its FUM over the past year, off the back of the strong performance of its Australian Equity Fund and other products. According to Rainmaker Information, in the year to June 2010, Fidelity's domestically sourced FUM ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... AEST. Other economic data due for release includes the Australian Industry Group-Housing Industry Association (HIA) performance of construction index (PCI) for August and the HIA's state and national outlook report for the June quarter. In companies ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... issues car sales data for August, and the Australian Industry Group/Commonwealth Bank Australian release their Performance of Services Index (Australian PSI) for August. The Australian Office of Financial Management conducts an auction of $700 million ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... market. Standard & Poor's chief investment strategist Sam Stovall was one among many who researched the historical performance of the stock market and found that since 1929,the S&P declined by 1.3 per cent on average in Septembers. Also, the Wall Street ...