Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1311 - 1320 of 1586 results for "Power50"

Wealthy women frustrated with finance firms: book

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
Financial services companies may want to review how they interact and work with women after research found they represent $12 trillion in consumer discretionary spending globally are disappointed with the way finance firms deal with them. A recently ...

Arise Chindonesia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
China may be the darling of economic groupies, India the superpower in waiting, but realisation is growing that Indonesia may be their rocket fuel. Regional analysts have been so taken with the possibility that editorials around Asia are now spruiking ...

New tax code to drive Indian reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
India's tax reform proposals will boost local savings, drive investment volumes and push up long term growth in the capital markets. The reforms could lead to strong savings growth for India's middle income households, according research from Mumbai-based ...

ASIC targets Brighton in Westpoint swoop

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
ASIC has filed a court application to commence proceedings against Brighton Hall Securities as part of its latest Westpoint crackdown. ASIC announced yesterday that it had filed an application for leave in the Federal Court in Perth to commence proceedings ...

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
Herding cats. There was not much movement on Wall Street overnight so let's just talk about herding cats today. Wall Street dipped ever so slightly as - despite what the headlines say - there weren't any fresh news to steer direction. It was the same ...

Super funds should own fund managers: Gray

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... [with their investment partners], not the managers," he said. Gray critiqued the superannuation industry's imbalance of power - whereby "agents" or fund managers among others, often dictate the terms and conditions of managing money and returns to members. ...

Liquidity flow versus trade flow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
There is no mistaking that in the battle between the bulls and the bears, the thundering herd of male cows have got the upper hand over the past six months. Investor sentiment has changed from fearing being in the market to dreading missing out. Despite ...

Of population growth and surpluses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
Since we're still into discussions of the alphabet these days, did anyone notice Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan mention the 'S' word last week? It was during his address to formally launch the Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research ...

Yin to market yang

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
Chinese authorities don't just speak another language, the way they regulate their stockmarket contradicts the Western dogma too, and that's a good thing for long-term Asian equities investors. Michael Power, investment strategist at fund manager Investec ...

Finance firms power down to power up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
Financial services data centres are a large drain on power and can add millions of dollars to utility bills, but it doesn't have to be that way, said an IT expert. Gary Hull, the country managing director of Raritan, an award-winning power management ...