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Global investors call for action on climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... institutional investors worth more than US$24 trillion - including the world's largest fund manager BlackRock, the world's sixth largest pension fund CalPERS, and Australia's largest industry super fund AustralianSuper - have signed a statement in which ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... the Reserve Bank of Australia's quarterly bulletin is due for release. On Wednesday, the Australian sharemarket fell for a sixth consecutive session, following one per cent falls in banking stocks. At the close on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and JB Hi-Fi are expected to post full year results. In Australia, the market on Friday fell for a sixth straight day - equalling its longest run of losses in four years - amid the prospect of US air strikes in Iraq. The benchmark ...

It's all about the US week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... Here, consensus expectations are also positive. As per Bloomberg, "Employers probably added more than 200,000 jobs for a sixth consecutive month in July, according to the median estimate of 35 economists surveyed before nonfarm payrolls data due Aug. ...

Investors find opportunity in SMSF conservative approach

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... were 1,006,975 SMSF members in Australia, up from 524,000 in 2004. "If Selfie-ville was an Australian city, it would be the sixth most populous after Adelaide," Credit Suisse researchers said.

IOOF and SFGA union rattles top ranks

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... be smaller than AMP, RBS Morgans and Commonwealth Bank, but larger than Westpac, NAB, Macquarie and ANZ. It will also be sixth by number of advisers, right after AMP and the big four. "IOOF brings scale, management and marketing experience; it puts us ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... push higher, we should be in for a positive finish for the week," he told AAP. A positive finish on Thursday would be a sixth consecutive sessions of gains. Iron ore miner Atlas Iron jumped 3.25 cents, or 3.4 per cent, to 98.75 cents after it said it ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... per cent, to 5,467.1 points. NEW YORK - Solid earnings and major pharmaceutical-sector deals lifted stocks, producing a sixth straight day of gains for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 65.12 points (0.40 per ...

Annual global dividends pass $1 trillion for first time

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... come from the technology sector, more than doubling since 2009 (+109%) thanks in particular to Apple, which paid almost one sixth of global tech dividends last year from a standing start in 2012. For dividends technology is a relatively small sector ...

Rich get richer fastest in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... share of national income going to the richest one percent in Australia is about 9%. The figure puts Australia's proportion sixth in the world behind the US, Singapore, Ireland, Japan and Italy. Oxfam said extreme economic inequality is morally questionable ...