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ING Australia buys FSP Group

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... planning group in the country when it bought the FSP Group, adding a 145-adviser network with over $2.5 billion FUA to the fold in one swoop. The group sidesteps the industry's long-running problem on skills shortage after buying FSP and effectively ...

Bombay Stock Exchange leads governance reforms

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
The Indian stock market has grown six-fold in four years and current sentiment is for it to keep going, but a big question for Australian investors is whether its governance mechanisms can absorb the explosive growth and maintain market integrity. Raising ...

Microcap a winning formula at Cygnet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
... cent compounded annually for the past two years. Among his best bets were shares in Admiralty Resources, which grew seven-fold, and Pure Energy, which grew more than three-fold. Similarly, the new fund aims to return high capital growth over the medium ...

Climate change to cost $50bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
... floodplains and coastal regions have caused the risk of insurance losses to increase. It noted that there's been a fifteen-fold increase in weather-related insurance claims over the last 30 years. In particular, 40 per cent of businesses insured by Allianz' ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2007
... about strong earnings tempered nervousness about weakness in credit conditions, with news that another mortgage lender may fold. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 100.96 points, or 0.76 per cent, to end at 13,463.33. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2007
... strong earnings tempered nervousness about more weakness in credit conditions, with news that another mortgage lender may fold. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 100.96 points, or 0.76 per cent, to end at 13,463.33. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index ...

Water's potential to float

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
... making water more expensive. However, on CSIRO projections if measures are not taken now, the price of water will increase ten-fold by 2030 simply due to shortages. Citi says we currently pay 20 per cent below the OECD average water price. According ...

Market gains velocity

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
Stock velocity has increased five fold over the past 15 years, having implications not only for liquidity, but consequentially the capacity constraints of long-only investment managers. The Asia Pacific equity research team at JPMorgan describe 'stock ...

Plum awash with TFNs

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2007
... Services' campaign to inform clients about the significance of not submitting tax file numbers post-1 July has netted a four-fold rise in submissions over the past few months, according to chief executive, Mike Fitzsimons. The number of TFNs submitted ...

Scientific investing wins big

... quantitative fund products has jumped in recent years with quant manager Barclays Global Investors (BGI) Australia reporting a five-fold increase in funds under management (FUM) to $50 billion since 2000. BGI chief executive, Morry Waked, said it took ...