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New credit ratings agency in town

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
Australia's credit ratings market has a new entrant - Corporate Scorecard - which recently received the green light from ASIC to operate as a licensed Credit Ratings Agency. According to a press release, CSC is the first Australian-owned CRA to obtain ...

Spam levels threaten inbox safety

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... emails. "Typically if it looks like a dangerous message, the safest thing is to not open it but it's not necessarily a high risk thing to look at a message," he said. "What you really don't want to do is open an attachment or go to a website that's in ...

Protection without commission: JB Global

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... also an advocate for green investments, noted that capital protection can come in handy for investors looking to tap high risk, offshore ESG-centric investments. "This way, [clients] can get the upside growth such as those in the renewable energy sector ...

Actuaries call for advice 'stress test'

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... the institute's Wealth Management Committee, said the stress test would allow consumers to understand the impact of high risk strategies. "If each of the investors who lost their life savings through their involvement with some high profile collapses ...

EC's reforms could be fatal to hedgies

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... the same thing. The firm argues that a highly leveraged low risk strategy could be much less risky than an unleveraged high risk strategy. "Together the proposals are perverse - restricting the investment strategies available to 'risky' hedge funds to ...

OECD vindicates govt super reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... much private retirement savings, the OECD said the main problem for retirees in Australia is the low age pension. "The high risk of old-age poverty in Australia is mainly due to the relatively low level of the age pension: equivalent schemes in other ...

HNWs to buy Aus equities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... year's credit crisis, there are five times more high net worth (HNWs) investors who have zero portfolio allocation to high risk assets today than 18 months ago. Back in late 2007, only 6 per cent were ultra-conservative, or had zero allocation to 'high ...

UBS cuts business and jobs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... management and the Swiss banking business alongside its divisions in investment banking and asset management. "UBS will exit high risk and unpromising businesses. The bank is currently conducting a review to make clear decisions about which business ...

Aviva covers risky jobs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Aviva has launched a new Income Daily Living product that insures non-working spouses and Australians in high risk occupations. The new product will offer protection to occupations traditionally classified as 'too risky', such as labourers, window cleaners ...

Defensive fixed income wins

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... that in the last 12 to18 months the firm has been communicating with advisers on the pitfalls of investing in certain high risk private debt, hybrid or high yield products. "We believed that the fixed income markets weren't offering a lot of returns ...