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

Search Results

Showing 281 - 290 of 350 results for "Echo"

PIS partners with health advisory service

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
Professional Investment Services (PIS) has aligned with medical organisation Health Predictions in a joint venture to provide specialist medical assessments for large sums assured and high net worth clients. The new service is designed to arrange specialist ...

Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
My forecasts are gloomier than yours! The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has joined the fray of gloomier international forecasters. The World Bank (WB) started to get glum at the start of the year, quickly followed by the ...

Australia faces financial hub contender

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
Singapore is introducing new tax incentives for investment funds to build up its position as an international finance powerhouse - a move which could pose a serious threat to Australia's hopes of becoming Asia's financial hub. The Singaporean government ...

Don't punish fin services for GFC: Pearce

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... beginning to play out through his various stimulus packages and regulatory review initiatives. Pearce's comments also ironically echo aspects of what Garry Weaven, chairman of Industry Funds Management, argued in a recent speech to the National Press ...

Pearce rejects "sloppy" league tables

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... relying only upon macro fund performance, the data is compromised and potentially inaccurate and misleading." Pearce's comments echo the sentiment from the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) which labelled the proposed superannuation ...

Communication top priority for 2009

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
Financial planners new to the industry face even tougher challenges this year to gain the trust of their clients. According to young financial planners Brad Fox from Total Financial Solutions and Synchron's Sarah Riegelhuth, the toughest challenge for ...

Bumper year for the faithful: Fidelity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
Fund manager Fidelity makes a line call and names 2009 as a vintage year for buying Aussie shares. Taylor believes the New Year will represent "fantastic opportunities" to buy into the Aussie equities arena. "We're going to go through what's going to ...

Que sera, sera

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... goal of policy must be to support financial markets and the economy.' An issue for the future? Somehow it sounds like an echo of the mantra espoused by sub-prime borrowers, investment banks, lending institutions, local governments, etc. when they were ...

UniSuper ramps up Asia corporate governance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
The $23 billion UniSuper is taking the corporate governance of its $1 billion investments in Asia to new heights - the fund is extending its proxy voting policy for shareholders to include ventures in the region. UniSuper has already commenced voting ...

Daily funnies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
People don't need to read the funny pages anymore to get their daily amusement fix. They only have to read the way the media interpret the daily movements in the stockmarket. Wall Street rallied almost 11 per cent last night. Here is Bloomberg's interpretation ...