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True Index contains residual risk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... Financial advisers and investors must realise True Index funds are not immune to extreme market events, according to Scott Donald, Russell Investment Group director of fiduciary research. True Index funds aim to replicate an index by investing in an ...

Zurich sets up Climate Change council

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008

Life ban for adviser after altering codes

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... repeated and deliberate dishonest behaviour, including spending clients' insurance premiums on himself. Another disgraced Donald Maxwell, a promoter of illegal mezzanine fund schemes, was ordered to pay $1.122 million in compensation and penalties in ...

CFS adds muscle to distribution team

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... strategy," said Colonial First State general manager of distribution, Paul Barett. Among some of the key staff recruited is Alex Donald - formerly responsible for managing key account strategy for Zurich's retail business - who has been appointed head ...

BRIC sector splits SRI managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... added many of their funds still outperformed the benchmark. Others like to approach the BRIC debate differently. Scott Donald, director of capital markets research at Russell Investment Group, said it could be counter-productive to reject countries that ...

VicSuper wins Sustainability Super Fund award

... between sustainability and investing. The 'Special Award for Sustainability' research went to Nicholas Taylor and Scott Donald from the Russell Investment Group for their report Sustainable Investing: Marrying Sustainability Concerns with the Quest for ...

US Fed hints rates holiday may be over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... we should not hold the economy hostage to teach a small segment of the population a lesson," said US Fed vice chairman Donald L Kohn in a major speech on Wednesday. "To minimize moral hazard, central banks should operate as much as possible through general ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
... Street lead and renewed optimism in the local banks. US financial stocks rose after Federal Reserve Bank Vice-Chairman Donald Kohn reinforced expectations of another US interest rate cut next month. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 100.8 ...

No more sustainable investment roadblocks: Russell

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2007
... pursuing a sustainable investing approach when account is taken of appropriate risk and style effects." Co-author Scott Donald said the findings also suggest trustees no longer have to worry about negative performance from sustainable investing compromising ...

Currency hedging key to international returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... currency hedging, more than investment strategy selection, is the key to generating high returns in international equities. Donald Hellyer, managing director and head of insurance and fund manager relations at nabCapital, said with the Australian Dollar's ...