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Dutch pension fund files against GSAM

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... The coverage ratio for Pensioenfonds Vervoer has hovered just below 100% for most of the year, according to a Financial Times report, although a decision from the Dutch government on Thursday to allow funds to use higher interest rates for long term ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Ho-ho-hum. Been there, done that times n. Another day, another week, another month, another quarter and still financial markets continue to dance to the same old songs. They rise and fall depending on the headline of the day - though it seems to me ...

Morphic Asset Management opens for business

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... flexible hedging strategies, then global equities are going to represent the wisest diversification of capital risk in current times," said. Lowenstein "Our research across trends and stocks will cover Europe, Asia and the Americas, with our team already ...

Research key to Asian small caps

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... pension contributions, Said David Urquhart, portfolio manager of the Lonsec recommended Fidelity Asia Fund. "There have been times when [Asian] small cap companies have turned over substantial portions of their market capitalisation in a single day," ...

UK launches bank probe amid Libor scandal

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... told UK media yesterday. "These are people, let's remember, who were paid a lot of money with big, fat bonuses in the good times and they need to also take responsibility in the bad times. They need to take the rough with the smooth." Barclays has already ...

Gonski to join APS board

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... of Prescribed Private Funds (PPFs) in 1999. His philanthropic involvement with the arts has extended to acting at various times as chairman for the Australian Council of the Arts, president of the board of trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW, chair of ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... Brussels -- that has stopped Europe from seeing the backside of this crisis. The bottom line is - surely you've read this many times before - the currency union's crisis will remain in crisis until all members agree to a more integrated fiscal and banking ...

Older investors dumping equities

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... CFSGAM. "Women are far more cautious investors, closely following the market and more likely to move away from equities during times of high volatility. The exception is women under 35 years whose investment approach is in stark contrast to women in ...

AEI shareholders fight off board changes

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... Ethical Investment Limited (AEI) managing director, said, "Financial services is going through one of the most tumultuous times in living memory and without these changes the company could not survive." The shareholder group calling for the board spill ...

Census 2011: Australia is changing, and fast

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... language of Punjabi is the fastest growing second language. Add in Cantonese and China based languages are now almost 3-times more widely used than Italian, whose usage has in anycase fallen. Hinduism is meanwhile the fastest growing religion albeit ...