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No protection in protectionism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... Because it shows that the government is doing something to protect domestic jobs and businesses. That is, until the other country protects back. "Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

IMF Australia targets Great Southern

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... condition that enough members want to be involved in the litigation. IMF Australia is the largest litigation funders in the country. The firm has previously represented shareholders of the mining firm Sons of Gwalia and funded litigation against Westpoint ...

Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Mercer, one of the country's largest asset consultants, is advising its institutional clients to allocate more funds with active managers to capture the one-off abnormal returns coming out of stockmarkets as they switch into recovery mode. Simon Eagleton ...

Nigerians seek CFA certificate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... professionals signing up in a year. Around 1,000 Nigerian finance executives signed up for the CFA program. This means the country had the second most participants in Africa, said Emily Dunbar, director of society relations for Europe, Middle East and ...

Singapore pushes for online economy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
... government-led plans to convert admin processes across the public and private sectors into online services, effectively turning the country into an "online economy". "The iN2015 plan, laid out in 2006, outlines a roadmap for the decade-long process of ...

...and what it means for Australian instos

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... BlackRock and BGI changes the course of Australia's investment history, creating the tenth largest fund manager in the country with more than $40 billion in assets. Before the proposal, BGI Australia was the 12th largest fund manager in the country with ...

ING battles longevity risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... lifetimes," he added. Stout said the group had to first, work out the structure of the products so that they suited the country's individual tax and superannuation rules. A native of Pennsylvania, Stout moved to Sydney more than a year ago. In the US ...

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... the 30-nation OECD grouping in the March quarter. An unexpected 0.4 per cent growth in the first quarter prevented the country from posting its first technical recession since 1991. More recent data show the Australian economy continuing to improve. ...

Insurance needs more disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... fees and commissions displayed prominently in Product Disclosure Statements (PDS). Financial Standard asked some of the country's leading insurers how they would respond if, hypothetically, the financial advice industry moves towards predominantly fee-for-service ...

Go online, get results

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... online users in Australia, while the number of Facebook profiles is approaching the number of TVs in households across the country. Around $24 billion was spent online last year, he said. "[It's a place] where people readily part with money - [and] you've ...