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Deutsche commits to CSR

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Deutsche Bank's corporate social responsibility activities may have reached more than $140 million last year, but the firm is taking its strategy to another level in 2009. The firm's latest Corporate Social Responsibility Report detailed how the multi-million ...

Fed's unfunded liabilities balloon to $80bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
Federal unfunded superannuation liabilities have jumped 75 per cent in less than a decade, putting pressure on the government's Future Fund strategy to contain the fiscal blow out. The figures, contained in the latest Mercer analysis from the Department ...

FOS gears up to combat record complaints

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is on a hiring spree, increasing staff numbers by around 25 per cent in around nine months to cope with record levels of complaints across the financial services market. Colin Neave, chief ombudsman at FOS, said ...

Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The UK's pension regulator should investigate the funding plans of companies where deficit repayments will take more than 15 years, rather than the current ten, said a key industry body. According to an "eight point action plan" by UK business industry ...

Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Happy consumers beget a happy Wall Street. Green sprouts starting to flower? Neither Kim Jung Il's rattling of his nuclear sabre nor a reminder that US house prices continue to fall were able to prevent Wall Street from turning in a strong finish last ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Those who forget the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat it. Are we again giving credit ratings agencies undue credit? Equity and bond markets have been shaken by Standard & Poor's warning that it might downgrade the UK's sovereign credit rating. ...

Tweeting won't get you jobs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
More than 80 per cent of Australian jobseekers, including those in financial services, dismiss social networking as a way to find out about new jobs. A new Hays survey of around 800 Australian job hunters show that almost one in two said social networking ...

Plum members avoid switching

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Bucking the trend of high volumes of super members switching to cash, Plum Financial Services has reported that less than 2 per cent of its assets were switched to cash in the last 12 months despite the market crash as members hang on to investments. ...

Maritime merger saves $1m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Maritime Super may be able to save more than $1 million in administrative costs as a result of the merger in March, according to initial estimates. Peter Robertson, chief executive at Maritime Super, said the merger between the Stevedoring Employees ...

VicSuper seeds $150m low carb fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Super fund VicSuper continues to take the front step in addressing the global carbon emissions challenge when it awarded Vanguard an initial $150 million mandate to invest in stocks that generate the same returns as the market but with half the carbon ...