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Investors demand more clarity on carbon exposures

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... still mostly blindly given to short term fund managers who are neither interested, or incentivised to rebuild a more sustainable financial system."

The "ber" months are coming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013

Strong returns put UniSuper back in the black

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... falling below par and that future benefit payments from the scheme may need to be pruned back to put the fund on a sustainable fiscal footing. Such trustee action became an option under what is known as Clause 34 of the fund trust deed. But the rally ...

The life insurance sustainability challenge

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... Australian retail and group insurance markets need a greater focus on risk selection so that insurers can return to sustainable long-term profitability, Alain NA(C)emeh, executive vice president, Australia and Canada at Reinurance Group of America (RGA) ...

Data diarrhoea

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013

Breaking Australia's love affair with the lump sum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... By 2007, this figure had gone down to 47%. While this demonstrates a decline, the figure is still too large to be sustainable. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive Pauline Vamos has advocated a "stick and carrot" ...

Fidelity launches new mid-small cap Australian equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... telecommunications sectors. The investment process focuses on stocks with good management teams, which have rising and sustainable returns which can be reliably reinvested to fund further growth. The diversified portfolio aims to be resilient to market ...

Designer slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... it did and are still doing to numero uno before, during and after the GFC. China's shifting to growth that's more sustainable before its economic miracle ends in tears. You worried about the IMF's latest growth downgrade to its China economic growth ...

Adjusting for adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... indicates that investors have learnt to accept that reduce policy stimulation goes hand in hand with a stronger and more sustainable recovery. Nothing wrong with that, is there? But if Wall Street's just getting used to the idea of reduced Fed accommodation ...

Guiding it forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013