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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open flat on Monday with a slightly positive leads from Wall Street on Friday. Oil, precious metals and copper were higher, too. At 0713 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up ...

RIAA adds more members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
Super Safeguard, The FTSE Group - Australia and Trucost are the new members of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA). UBS Wealth Management financial adviser, Bernie Connolly; Fortuna Capital Partners consultant, Brookes McTavish ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
In the Roman calendar, the ides of March refers to the 15th day of the month of March. It was a festive day celebrating the Mars, the god of war. In modern times it has taken on an ominous sense ever since Julius Caesar's assassination on this date ...

AUSCOAL overhauls insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
The $4.9 billion super fund for the mining industry AUSCOAL Super has restructured its insurance to offer members scaleable, age-based cover. According to Bruce Watson, chief executive of AUSCOAL, the new default arrangement means the fund has moved ...

Alaska fund drops alternatives mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... Sudan is unique because it has been labeled as genocide by the federal government, and in particular because Congress passed safe harbor legislation last year allowing fiduciaries to make this particular divestment," said board chair Steve Frank. "We ...

Meat fund invests in high growth

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... fund. MIESF's move is a leap away from its peers that have shown favouratism towards pure cash products in a bid to seek safe haven from the global financial crisis. The Electricity Supply Industry Superannuation (ESI Super) for instance introduced a ...

PE group adopts ESG

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
US based Private Equity Council (PEC) members have agreed to integrate governance, social, health, labour and environmental issues into their investment processes. The guidelines were signed after a meeting with PEC and some of the worlds' largest institutional ...

Women take control of finances

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... Past performance is more important among women, 57 per cent of women said they placed more trust in past returns and seek a safe expected rate of return compared to 41 per cent of men. Self managed super funds (SMSF) are also a preferred super vehicle ...

CFS pumps up ESG investing

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
Colonial First State is making ESG research one of its top priorities this year. CFS, which is one of the supporters of VicSuper and HESTA's new ESG Research Australia initiative, said it had been actively supporting these issues for a number of years ...

Whistleblower wanted

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... Development (CPD) program. "We would encourage members to step forward and we encourage them to talk to us about how to make it a safe, legitimate process so everyone feels that it's a fair and reasonable thing to do rather than conduct Spanish inquisitions," ...