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Planning industry unified on commissions: AMP

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... valuable as it is about growing the market for financial planning advice." Held from September 14-15 in San Diego, California, the Major Firms Symposium includes sessions on regulatory issues, practice management, and the current state of the industr ...

US pension funds issue debt ultimatum

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... Members of Congress to act immediately on US debt or risk long term damage to the country's retirement savings. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) released a statement including a letter addressed to Obama and the members of ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... director of the Institute of International Finance and Barry Eichengreen, economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Darn their goes my five minutes of fame! The Wall Street Journal also led me to a paper written by Lawrence Goodman ...

Financial services targeted for data theft

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... have to be SMS approved for the client to remain resilient against Zeus attack. Imperva, which has its headquarters in California and its research team in Israel, provides data protection solutions for businesses. "We protect the structural data of the ...

Future Fund dabbles in India

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... assets under management issued the mandate to Bessemer some time in the March quarter of this year. Rob Chandra, a California-based partner at Bessemer, said he was delighted to have the Future Fund join as investor in its latest fund. "Our focus is ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... Thursday came in slightly below Wall Street expectations, dragged down by rising operating expenses. The Mountain View, California-based firm reported a first-quarter net profit of $US2.3 billion ($A2.19 billion), up from $US1.96 billion ($A1.86 billion) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... gauged the fallout from a massive earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan and triggered tsunami waves from Asia to California. The prospect of falling oil demand from Japan sent crude oil prices down to $101 a barrel. Industrial and materials companies ...

The day the earth moved

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... will be a spike in that country's demand for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Global suppliers, including refineries in California, may find it more profitable to increase shipments to Japan instead of selling the fuel domestically, resulting in a bidding-up ...

No pension for corrupt Bell staff

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... certain City of Bell staff following investigations into salary corruption among some of the city's top officials. The California Public Employees' Retirement System said it would not pay pensions of a number of City of Bell employees, including those ...

CalPERS deploys US$500m into ESG, OTPP buys Chunnel link

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... funds have been actively pursuing investment opportunities this week, and in typically unconventional fashion. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has invested $500 million into a new internally managed environmental investment ...