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Climate change rhetoric unsustainable

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car a kilometre while its production generated up to 600 times more CO2 than tap water. The reaction to any government climate change measures should therefore be expected to intensify. ...

Governance before crisis

... back to Enron at the end of 1990s and the collapse of other US funds, the trouble with dealing with [governance] at those times is that they were dealing with immediate issues that have to be shut down," he said. Research by Rainmaker and ISN indicate ...

Bear Stearns a 'reasonable risk': JPMorgan

... Stearns' scale of fixed income business and more limited international scope. Meanwhile, London-based newspaper The Financial Times has reported that JPMorgan is expected to incur a US$6 billion one-off charge for potential litigation and to manage Bear's ...

Enron Part Two

... statistics that show 80 per cent of fraud in detected cases happened with at least one senior manager involved, as desperate times call for desperate measures. "People become more and more aggressive with their estimates and allocations during tough ...

Household wealth breaks through $5 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... where they found household net worth increased by 11.6 per cent in the year to June 2007. This wealth pool is more than four times the total value of superannuation. But super at $1.1 trillion compared to non-dwelling wealth totalling $1.7 trillion means ...

Tele-underwriting with a health check

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... Expediting the underwriting process has been a major challenge for the insurance industry, according to Pathrec. Long completion times, due to incomplete applications or delays in medical attendant reports have made it difficult to fast-track the underwriting ...

EMs too fast, too furious for sub-prime

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Emerging markets are set to grow more than three times the rate of developed markets and will shrug off the sub-prime led liquidity crisis with ease, according to emerging markets wizard Mark Mobius. EMs investments expert Mobius from Templeton Asset ...

Asgard automates data feeds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... protocol for information transfer from platforms to front-end software, removing the need for data to be input multiple times. The standards have been implemented across Asgard Wealth Solutions' (Asgard) eWRAP, Elements and Master Trust products. "[Asgard] ...

Super gap widens between haves and have-nots

... not saving enough. For example, survey respondents who fell under the 'major contributors' - or those with more than four times the account balance of an average member - accounted for more than half of all contributions made between January and June ...

Snowball boosts FUA by $300m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
... growth was linked to how well it managed its client portfolios. "We took action to position our portfolios for troubled times, so our cash weighting would be at the top of our ranges and we reduced our weighting to listed property trusts some time ago ...