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Women on boards tracking well: AMP Capital

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... governance report AMP Capital said in 2010, 60% of companies the firm held had no women directors. By 2015, this number had fallen to 21%. AMP Capital corporate governance manager Karin Halliday said there is a sound business case for improving gender ...

Dear Chancellor

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
... seems rational, particularly given the continued improvement in the country's labour market. The UK's unemployment rate has fallen to 5.1% in the three months to November - the lowest level in 10 years (October quarter 2005). The lead from the claimant ...

Down but upbeat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
... aussie's fetching 2.5 less yuan this year and 7.2% lower against the yuan from a year earlier. The Australian dollar has also fallen against the euro and the yen - despite their respective central bank's efforts to down their legal tenders - and also ...

Doom(ed) rebound?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... had gone too far" even before hitting Standard Chartered Bank's US$10 a barrel prediction. Perhaps, prices have indeed fallen too far (and too fast). Perhaps, all those who wanted out of the market have already exited. But if the latest servings of "gloom ...

SIV interest wanes after rule changes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Applications for Significant Investor Visas (SIVs) have fallen dramatically since new rules requiring investment in start-ups and emerging companies were introduced in July. Reports from November showed there have been just 19 applications since the ...

Be alert to recession amid growth headwinds: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... years to run. Mining investment peaked a bit above 7% of GDP in 2012 and at the end of the third quarter in 2015 it had fallen back to around 5%. "To put this in context, its long-run average prior to the boom was a bit above 1%," he said. Through the ...

Vanguard Australian Shares leads monthly ETF inflows

JOHN DYALL  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... unhedged) returned 27% in Australian dollar terms. Taking these effects into account, the allocation to Australian equities has fallen from 51% at the end of October 2014 to 43% at the end of October 2015. Over the same time period the proportion of ...

Super fund returns fall again in September

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... returns at 7.9% pa and 10 year returns at 5.7% pa. It is worth noting that this is the first time that the 10 year return has fallen below 6% since August 2012. Overall the SelectingSuper index has been sustained by international equities that returned ...

FEATURE: Reshaping insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... 15,408 risk options offered by 235 super funds and master trusts, revealed that average sum insured per dollar per week has fallen 4.6% over the past 12 months for combined death and total permanent disability (TPD) cover and 5.6% for death-only cover. ...

Future Fund issues return warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... managing the portfolio." Figures released in the latest update reveal that the fund's allocation to Australian equities has fallen to just 6.4%, less than the 7.9% it holds in emerging markets. Almost a fifth of the fund (18.8%) is invested in developed ...