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Super marketing with grunt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
A YouTube ad, an email blast and an annual report that morphs with the member's age were among the winning entries at this year's ASFA Communications Awards held in Sydney last night. This year's awards, which recognises the most innovative or effective ...

Sub-prime divorce binge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
The sub-prime induced credit crunch blowing a hole in the wallets of well-heeled London couples is fuelling a spike in divorces among stockbrokers, financial analysts and hedge fund managers. According to a report in the Economist magazine, City couples ...

Pension alternatives investments top $860bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
The amount of alternative assets managed by 99 of the world's largest investment managers on behalf of pension funds jumped 40 per cent to $864 billion last year, according to Watson Wyatt and Global Investor magazine. The Global Alternatives 99 research ...

Big lift in company corporate governance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
Australia's largest publicly listed companies meet most best practice guidelines for corporate governance even though full independence remains a major challenge. "Overall the corporate governance structures for the top 20 companies by market capitalisation ...

Super savings on track

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
Just as new research confirms that Australians are on track for a retirement income equivalent to more than 90 per cent of average weekly earnings, concerns are growing about the damage rising inflation could have on these savings goals. AMP which has ...

Forum 'gets real' on ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
Sustainability magazine, Ethical Investor, is holding a one-day forum to ensure investment managers understand how to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment processes. Michael Walsh, Ethical Investor executive ...

BNY Mellon champions fiduciary transition

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
A fiduciary transition management style beats the conventional "agent" model when it comes to cutting admin costs, according to BNY Mellon Asset Management Australia. Mellon Transition Management Services (MTMS), the transition management specialist ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
There's not much point to Australia's terms of trade being at record levels if all it does is drive up our currency and keeps us suffocating under a current account deficit that just won't budge. The terms of trade are a measure of the prices we pay ...

Jay-Z versus Greenspan

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
When rappers and supermodels choose Euros over the greenback, what does that say about the direction of the US economy? The world's richest model, Gisele BA1/4ndchen is apparently insisting that she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar ...

Aussie IT joins FinTech 100

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
Bravura Solutions features as the only Australian financial services technology provider to rank in this year's FinTech 100. The Financial Insights and American Banker magazine, FinTech 100, determines its rankings from each companies year-end revenues ...