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

Search Results

Showing 131 - 140 of 150 results for "Brain"

Longevity puts focus on trauma insurance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... as well and it's culminating in longevity risks," said Kirwan. When people confront a dilapidating disease, for example a brain tumor, the real problem is they may find publicly funded support can cover only 20 per cent of the costs, said Jennifer Cullen ...

Seeking six figures online

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
A new recruitment website that links high income job seeking-hopefuls directly with employers is due to be launched next week, hoping to change the face of the high-end employment scene. Six Figures ( www.sixfigures.com.au ) is the brainchild of HR ...

CommInsure tracks lost super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
Commonwealth Bank's insurance arm, CommInsure, has embarked on a mission to help customers track down and consolidate over $2.5 million of their lost super accounts. CommInsure, who administers the SuperTrace Eligible Rollover Fund, have joined ranks ...

Pengana launches global volatility fund

A new Pengana fund bears two industry buzzwords, 'global' and 'volatile'. After last night's S&P awards, it can now add "award-winning" to its name too. Having won the S&P's Innovative Product of the Year award, the Pengana Global Volatility has also ...

AMG answers demand for US boutiques

Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), an American asset manager that part-owns established boutique funds, has quietly amassed $8 billion in Australian mandates and hopes to make a bigger splash later this year through the launch of new global products. ...

Scientific investing wins big

The number of institutional investors embracing quantitative fund products has jumped in recent years with quant manager Barclays Global Investors (BGI) Australia reporting a five-fold increase in funds under management (FUM) to $50 billion since 2000. ...

Members covered for fraud but not bad investments

... fraudulent conduct or theft that makes it difficult to pay benefits and where a grant is in the public interest," said Tony Brain, director of the fund's acting trustee Deloitte Management. However, this meant that the members could not recoup approximately ...

NSW Govt to launch biodiversity fund

Private land owners and property developers are set to benefit from an innovative NSW Government scheme which allows both parties to address the biodiversity impact of any land development through a centralised offset and credit-based scheme. The brainchild ...

Macq and Citi offer best of more worlds

The brainiacs at Macquarie and Citigroup have been busy creating products that offer investors the best of both worlds, letting investors scoop up all the returns of the best performing investments and none of the losses from the worst. MQ Specialist ...

Go green, go dim

Switch off your electricity and save the world was the message from over 60 major finance companies that signed up to an initiative to cut Sydney's greenhouse gas emissions. It sounds like a scene from a sci-fi movie but on 31 March the Sydney building ...