Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 251 - 260 of 288 results for "Freedom"

APRA fund level reporting proposals dangerous

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... administration fees." However IFSA said they are considering reviewing their reporting guidelines to give their members more freedom to compare their returns with competitor funds in a way they believe is fairer. IFSA's concerns with the APRA proposals ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom. For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and travelled across oceans in search of a new life. For us, they toiled ...

Right to choice must balance costs of choosing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... problem then government will impose a solution. Pearce said a way manage the inherent contradictions between people needing freedom of choice, being apathetic about their choices while still protecting the government's Duty of Care to ensure they save ...

Malaysia boosts REITs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... provides "greater flexibilities for managers to manage their portfolio mix". "For example, REIT Managers will have more freedom to invest in foreign real estates. It also allows a portion of a REIT's portfolio to consist of real estates that it does ...

Industry questions dual role of CEO

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... [the CEO should be on the board]. Sure there might be potential corporate problems, but I think you've got to give people freedom to do what they want to do if they can do it well," he said. At the other end of the spectrum, Scott Donald, director fiduciary ...

Coalition doesn't support higher SG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... people to put more money into superannuation is not something that sits easily with the Liberal Party's philosophy of freedom of choice, said Shadow Treasurer, Malcolm Turnbull. Speaking at yesterday's Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Sydney luncheon ...

Our two-track super model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could be sending strong regulatory signals when he said people earning more than $60,000 may not need welfare support and government protection. The Prime Minister this morning told Fairfax radio that the people who really ...

Don't strangle sovereign funds: OECD

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... management of their wealth and ultimately benefit their own economic development." The OECD is holding it 7th Roundtable on Freedom of Investment, National Security and Strategic Industries in Paris later this month to discuss each countries' regulations ...

ING IM and Credit Agricole win $1.1b Philippine mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... position to propose an asset allocation." According to Garcia, fund managers had investment strategy and asset allocation freedom however they are required to have an absolute return of eight per cent floor limit on annual returns (net of fees) and a ...

Equity Trustees super six times bigger

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... Equity Trustees Limited, said. "Early on we bought Templetons, which had a master fund running in Brisbane then we've had Freedom of Choice then we've had Mutual Benefit Consulting which was small in Sydney." According to the firm's half-year performance ...