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Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... decreased by 6.9 per cent -- the biggest in 21 years. Financial markets' hopes for some stability while the economy gather enough strength to recover evaporated after the US Congress voted 228 to 205 against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of ...

Green advice is not a stretch: Brisbane

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... returns. It doesn't have to be 100 per cent one way our the other, the clients can choose," she said. She said there are enough managed funds to effectively advise a client that wants to integrate ethical issues into their portfolios, but the devil is ...

Managers seek ESG framework

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... about stewardship and it's a lot of effort. You're not sitting there watching the asset being created, and you need to ask enough questions and get the right information back that you feel comfortable with when things are being done properly," he said. ...

ESG buck stops with super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... trustees aren't interested in it, guess what happens? It's the same in the funds management and broking industry, there's not enough out there in the market place because there's not enough interest in it," said Coombe. Coombe said the wealth management ...

Market wrap - midday

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... Sachs had prompted the positive opening. "The market is thinking if Warren Buffet thinks now is the time to buy, it's good enough for us as well'," Ms Saly said. "Generally, we're seeing some good buying across the financial sector, up 1.5 per cent. ...

Minnow mortgage manager wants to be big fish

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... channel. "We actually started off with the idea that we wanted to be a financial services firm, but if you don't have a large enough distribution footprint, you can't sell. "So we acquired the Lawfund business to give us the distribution footprint, with ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... financial system to death. The George W. Bush administration proposed to build a dumpster - worth US700 billion - hopefully big enough to contain all of the toxic debts that has been choking the financial system for more than a year. The Treasury plans ...

Dec 2007 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... AIG was still a proud insurance giant. And back then, global economic growth was much stronger. Will US$247 billion be enough this time to contain the spread of the financial sector cancer? And it is spreading. Morgan Stanley was reported overnight to ...

FPA signs 10 to PI service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... for smaller financial planning groups. "The Pro PI service, which is provided by JLT, we do all in house and we're big enough to be able to do that," Evans said. "But there are a lot of other firms out there who are not as large, so those firms are now ...

PIS calls for industry and retail ceasefire

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... Robbie Bennetts, said the fee versus commission debate is a distraction from the real issue of ensuring Australians have enough savings to retire on. "Instead of wasting energy on the debate over the upfront fees and ongoing commissions, the industry ...