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China acts on climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... country's carbon trading to invest in climate change projects. The fund is the first of its kind, according to Financial Times, and follows the fact that 60 per cent of world's carbon reduction projects are in China. Xie Zhenhua, deputy director of the ...

Village People

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... living market has achieved market penetration of around 12 per cent of the over 65 population, which JLL notes is three times higher than Australia's market 4 per cent share or an estimated 108,000 people. Given the cultural, demographic and economic ...

Responsible investing gains momentum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... funds flow into non-RI funds in Europe. "Net new money into European responsible investing (RI) mutual funds increased three times faster than new money into non-RI mutual funds between 2004 and 2006," said Raj Thamotheram, director of responsible investment ...

Macq launches retail fusion

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... opportunity for retail investors to have a greater weighting to the emerging markets in Asia within their portfolio. "In times of market volatility, capital protected products also become very popular. This is because they provide peace of mind to the ...

ASFA elects new board members

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... board, but it's quite a substantial commitment and so both have decided not to re-stand," she said. "The board meets six times a year, and there are board committees they have to go on as well, so for anybody, it's quite a substantial commitment." Holston ...

IIFA pledges global reporting standards

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... costly, regulation was a necessary burden. "The price of peace in this industry is eternal vigilance. It's good to have good times, as we are having & but just as things go up, they come down, and we have to be absolutely sure that people are aware of ...

Super veterans accept Industry Service Awards

... business development, planner groups at AMP CustomSuper. Anderson added that Healy is "one of those people who can fit four times as much in a week" compared to an ordinary person. If he's not at work or attending ASFA meetings, Healy supports organ ...

Equities without borders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... question is, is it going to continue?" He cited BHP's example, where based on next year's earnings, it was trading at 15-16 times earnings. "That is reflecting all of that price gain and extrapolating that forever." "It [the local bourse] is a one-theme ...

Rocketing small caps slow big cap funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
... its job and providing alpha, it still underperformed the index due to the turbocharged performance of small caps in recent times. Inalytics founder and chief executive Rick Di Mascio said When we performed the analysis, we were able to validate that ...

Raging bull in sub-prime abattoir

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
... taking the crown as the biggest Wall Street writedown ever. Merrill's announcement of a Q3 loss of $2.24 billion is six times worse than their October 5th estimate. The investment bank said the losses were in collateralised debt obligations (CDOs), and ...