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Regnan adds to governance team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) specialist, Regnan has appointed former CGI Glass Lewis executive, Pru Bennett as head of the firm's governance division. Prior to the appointment, Bennett spent 12 years at research firm CGI Glass Lewis. Regnan ...

Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
Australians really are a spoiled bunch. Give them bread and they ask for cake. Give them cake and they question why not the bakery instead. And while you're at it, throw in a coffee factory - nay, the whole plantation - but be careful not to spend too ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
So it was, so it shall be. The odds - the Dow fell in 12 out of the past 16 US Presidential Inaugurations - have prevailed. Now it's 13 out of 17. The Dow fell by 4.1 per cent and the S&P 500 dropped by 5.3 per cent as Barack Obama is confirmed as the ...

Filled half-empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
The Australian economy grew by 0.1 per cent in the third quarter - the slowest since December 2000. Is the glass half-full? Or is it half-empty? Gauging from the headlines that followed the release of the Australian National Accounts, the domestic economy's ...

Sentiment seesaw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
Up and down we go, where it stops we do not know. Wall Street's performance overnight highlights how tenuous financial market sentiment remains. The sentiment seesaw became obvious as the Dow Jones industrial index went from a 4.4 per cent loss to a ...

MLC locks premium rates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
MLC is locking its insurance level premium rates for the next five years and refreshing its product disclosure statements in its latest endeavour to draw fresh clients. MLC confirmed at its Insurance Forum today that the guarantee applies to new clients ...

Aurora Trust delivers 13pc

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
Investors keen to stay in the black despite the market doldrums should look no further than Aurora's Sandringham Dividend Income trust. Sandringham's low double-digit returns may have been ho-hum during the bull years but this year's 12.76 per cent ...

Mercer opens first ext advice practice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
Mercer Wealth Solutions opened its first external financial advice practice in Baulkham Hills, Sydney, just three months after it launched the new advice channel. Practice director, John Tsekas, a financial adviser with 15 years experience, joins the ...

Australian Ethical HQ wins Banksia award

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
Ethical fund manager Australian Ethical Investment put its ESG theories to practice when it won the prestigious Banksia Environmental Foundation award for its new environmentally friendly headquarters. Australian Ethical Investment's new office, Trevor ...

Allianz wheels insurance for motor trade

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
Allianz taps into Australia's burgeoning motor trade industry when it launched a new Motor Trades Pack insurance product that provides 15 different insurance policies under a single policy. The Motor Trades Pack insurance policy covers glass breakage ...