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Mmm...bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... Wall Street stayed the bullish course. Then the crunch! Nobody doubts the Fed today. Because it is sooo logical! It is mainstream. It is what it is. It is what will be. But by merely forecasting a slow recovery, the Fed is already changing the economic ...

Avoid financial speculation: Pontiff

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... not have been directly endorsing many of the current debates in wealth management, but his comments strengthen how mainstream these issues have become and echo arguments about a need for a re-balancing between the roles of markets and government regu ...

Agribusiness MIS suffer 77pc drop

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... done right, agribusiness investments can offer long term competitive stable returns that are not correlated to the mainstream asset classes. "As always and with any investment, potential investors need to do their research and make sure they understand ...

AFA renews call to restrict 'financial adviser' term

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... advisers does nothing to encourage consumers to get that help." This week, financial advisers were on the news pages of mainstream press following a story on a couple of accountants who received notices from ASIC delivered to their doors. This was reported ...

VicSuper seeds $150m low carb fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... progress report from Colonial First State Global Asset Management. CFS GAM is taking the implementation of ESG principles mainstream as it hopes to get the UN PRI tick across all the asset classes it manages, totalling more than $128 billion in funds ...

Finovia opts for Select

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... portfolios which give them both an active asset allocation service and access to "best of breed" managers across both mainstream and alternative investments. Managed by SELECT, the philosophy behind the Finovia Portfolio Solutions is to achieve regular ...

Wealth Within joins IMA race

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... Individually Managed Accounts (IMA) platform, following two and a half years of development. "Managed accounts have become a mainstream product in recent years but until now financial planners have only been able to offer their clients separately managed ...

Sustainability grows in EMs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... $71 billion of assets identified represent funds labelled as sustainable investment, with the remainder reflecting mainstream institutional funds committed to integrating ESG within core investment processes. Helga Birgden, Mercer head of responsible ...

Tech unclogs insurance bottlenecks

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... electronic insurance application, Lifeguard EQ. "[Electronic applications] used to be a novelty but they're now absolutely mainstream," said Jordan Hawke, executive manager at Asteron. Hawke said they could have introduced the service around the same ...

More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... potentially reaching 3,800. James said that investors need to look beyond the doom-and-gloom metrics widely reported in mainstream media and instead observe the trends driving "the forgotten five": terms of trade, demographics, housing fundamentals ...