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Towers Watson expands Microsoft agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
Global professional services company Towers Watson has broadened the terms of its agreement with Microsoft to adapt some software applications, develop new processes for risk-based modelling applications and increase use of cloud computing. Mark Beardall ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
The Australian market is set to open slightly higher after world markets reacted positively to the release of Spain's 2013 budget supporting its austerity measures. At 0813 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up two ...

Investment teams need more skin in game

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Requiring employees and investment teams in institutions to have their own super money in funds put together for clients would help control agency risk, one research manager has argued. Daniel Liptak, head of alternative research at Zenith Investment ...

China slowdown hits rich list

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
China's 2012 Rich List released by the Hurun Report this week showed that for the first time since 2005 the number of USD-value billionaires in the country has declined, dropping by 20 over the past year to number 251. In another interesting indication ...

Suncorp and Bendigo jump on hybrid demand

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Listed insurance company Suncorp is one of the latest to tap into investor demand for high yields with the launch of a $350 million Tier 1 hybrid offer this week. The insurance giant said that the money raised from the hybrids which are called Convertible ...

The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Take one central banker's lack of faith at the recent action of the institution he serves, add rumours that a region threatens to secede from a country in a region that's desperately trying to stay as one, and what do we get? We get a problem Houston. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on the US and European bourses as concern re-emerges over the eurozone's debt problems and confidence wanes for the Federal Reserve's QE3 move. At 0815 AEST on Thursday, the December share ...

Investor confidence index down: State Street

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
North American and Asian investors dragged down global investor confidence in September, according to State Street's Investor Confidence Index (ICI). The Global ICI fell from August's revised reading of 91 to 86.9. North American investor confidence ...

Water an alternative with yield

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
Exposure to attractive food, resource and agricultural valuations can be achieved by investing in water as an asset class, said Tyndall AM. "Where there is a simple demand imbalance you are giving yourself a chance to participate in capital growth," ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
Australian stocks have opened lower after falls on Wall Street and losses for the mining giants. At 1015 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 20.6 points, or 0.47 per cent, at 4,352.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...