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FTSE opens environment indices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... provider teamed up with KLD Research & Analytics to launch a set of environmental, social and governance (ESG) indices. KLD president Peter Kinder described the partnership as a milestone for socially responsible investments and ESG integration. The ...

Bail-out Plan B

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
Has the US Treasury had a change of heart or merely trying to get on the good side of its boss-elect President Obama? The US$700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will no longer buy the TA (troubled assets) under the RP (relief program). ...

New dynamics, new realities: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Timor-Leste president and Nobel Peace laureate Dr Jose Ramos-Horta told delegates at the annual ASFA conference to prepare for the "new economic realities", where countries often overlooked in global policy-making such as Saudi Arabia, India and South ...

Changing of the guard at Russell

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... oversee a team of over 500 professionals across five continents, including Australia. The role reports to Russell's global president and chief executive officer, John Schlifske. Meanwhile Chris Corneil, former managing director of Russell's Investor ...

Pengana Global Volatility gains 24pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... the index to go as high as it did during Black October, he believes high volatility will continue as the US awaits the President-elect's new policies. "You've got the new president so what's the new tax policy? By how much is he going to raise federal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... after surging ten per cent or more the week before. The market briefly came off its highest levels of the session after president-elect Barack Obama reiterated at a news conference that there is a great deal of hard work to be done to restore the economy ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Australian equities remained in the doldrums in spite of the hopeful promise that came about with the changing of the guards at the White House. Senator Barack Obama's triumphant victory in the US Presidential election was welcomed with jubilation the ...

Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... financial markets, its people. It may sound weird to hear an African name - Obama - uttered right next to the title US President. And as one of the election campaign jokes go, 'will the White House now be named differently?' The White House will remain ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower today after Wall Street fell on concern that President-elect Barack Obama will struggle to reverse the slowing economy. At 0833 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney ...

RIMES and MSCI Barra team up

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... extensive benchmark coverage to support their entire investment process," claims Christian Fauvelais, chief executive and co-president of RIMES Technologies.