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VicSuper wins ACCA sustainability award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... issues disclosure, policy disclosure, supply chain, assurance framework, reporting quality, online accessibility and room for improvement.

Rejoice or lament

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... June. Rejoice - the rate of decline slowed. Lament - it remains way below 50. At least news out of Beijing leaves little room for confusion. China's Federation of Logistics and Purchasing reported that the country's purchasing managers' index clocked ...

Ignore history at your peril

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... advisers are "at the top end of the spectrum" compared to their international counterparts, he believes there is still much room for improvement. For McFarlane, today's global crisis is a loud wake up call for advisers to hit the books and arm themselves ...

Go for gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... return in nearly every corner of the world, bond yields offer just a little bit more return and bonds now have very little room for capital appreciation. Equities? Just look at your latest superannuation statement. Gold comes into fore during times of ...

Hunter Hall says sorry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... performance" and set out a plan on how to recover last year's losses. "To start with, I'd like to apologise to everyone in this room for our terrible performance over the last year or so. We had hoped to do better, we had planned to do better," he said. ...

Planners champion risk advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... a sizable 44 per cent chunk of planners wrote less than $25,000. "These figures suggest that there is still plenty of room for many advisers to develop the insurance side of their business," said Johnston. "We find that planners are calling for a wide ...

Thank you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... aggressively to counter the dampening effects of the liquidity crunch on the economy. Thank you too that it still has plenty of room for policy accommodation. Thank you that the previous Federal Government had the foresight to accumulate budget surpluses ...

SWIFT fast tracks insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... paper, where 'paper' in this case could mean sending documents via email. This can be time consuming and leaves a lot of room for error when certain transactions are entered into various IT systems many times along the value chain. The proposed electronic ...

No jump in client meetings: Business Health

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
... identifying trends in markets," he said. However, Graham Peatey, managing director at Encore Group, suggested there's room for planners to increase their batting average to a figure significantly higher. Referring to a US study on how financial advisers ...

Economy slowing down and speeding up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... the year". Reinforcing the dichotomy, RBA governor Glenn Stevens was quoted in weekend newspapers saying that to make room for the resources investment boom without leading to inflationary spikes requires household demand, especially house prices themselves ...