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SRI needs clarification: Finsia

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
... Finsia's project will be a senior industry roundtable to address these challenges and build the resources consumers need to feel confident about SRI. Finsia looks forward to further dialogue with Government, Opposition, industry associations and other ...

Star ratings on staff? Only in China

The third largest bank in China, the Bank of China (BOC), has introduced the penultimate in 'customer satisfaction' surveys, asking customers to rate individual banking employees on the spot with a one-star to five-star rating based on service level. ...

Investor optimism index down 43 per cent

The UBS/Gallup Index of Investor Optimism, a long-running monthly index that tracks investor confidence in the US, has dipped to a new low of 53 points, nearly half its base level of 93 points at the start of the year. While most research forecasting ...

Jury still out on community banking

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
Community banking makes us feel warm and fuzzy, but it's such a tiny market niche that it's hard to take it too seriously. Bendigo Bank has reported that almost 50,000 people have around $120 million invested in more than 180 "community bank" franchises ...

Scam targets ethnic community

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... often appeal to a vast number of people from a certain community but victims are reluctant to come forward. People often feel embarrassed about being conned - they may have hidden the truth even from their families." ASIC advised investors to take several ...

Hunter Hall shares the wealth with staff

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
Hunter Hall has announced a staff equity plan and executive profit sharing scheme in a bid to retain key personnel for the long term, a strategy which will see portfolio managers eventually owning 10 per cent of the company. The Portfolio Manager Share ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
... fourth successive down session thanks to a solid rebound by lead stock Telecom. However, brokers said the market did not feel particularly positive and results filtering in were generally disappointing. Telecom helped lifted the benchmark NZX-50 index ...

AustralianSuper moniker confusion

... said, "As a small public fund, we think, it's a good idea because that branding may rub off on us." "I'm not sure how they feel about it," said Litzow, "but we've had our name and logo registered for quite some time. It may have happened accidentally." ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
Woodside Petroleum chairman, Charles Goode, has announced that the energy producer is likely to soon get approval to supply the Californian market with LNG via specially designed ships which will anchor off the US coast and then pump the gas through ...

Borrowers in trouble after rate hike

The country's peak building and construction group fears the Reserve Bank's move to lift interest rates by 0.25 per cent represents a financial blow that many home owners can ill afford. Wilhelm Harnisch, chief executive of Master Builders Australia ...