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Planners miss sustainable mark: Fahy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... Trading Scheme (ETS) and a general push by financial institutions to 'go green'. "It will come to a stage where market forces are going to be so great that young couples looking at investment issues on super or equities will be looking to their planners ...

UBS taps into Dutch wealth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... north, east and central Europe, global wealth management and business banking. "This will enable UBS to service the Dutch market for wealthy individuals with immediate scale and the unique wealth control solution of VermogensGroep. Over time this will ...

FBI sting catches $2.4bn mortgage fraud

... because of how it affects the availability of credit and capital locally. "The financial consequences in the Australian market is that this has obviously led to asset backed markets freezing up for banks and borrowers, particularly for non-bank financial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
The Australian share market has continued its slide, down nearly two percent after Wall Street tumbled overnight and uncertainty in the mining sector. At 1218 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 125.2 points, or 2.29 per cent, at 5342.1, while ...

Emerging market funds to be rated on sustainability

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... Gardner, global business leader of Mercer's investment consulting business said the need for a better understanding of ESG forces at play in these markets and their impact on performance was a natural progression of increasing attention to EMs. Helga ...

Pentafin and DP step up MA technology

... Pentafin comes in," said Basile. Pentafin was set up in 2001 by a group of fund manager executives who decided that the market needed a better administration platform built on new technologies. Since then, Pentafin has won contracts to provide IT system ...

More regulation coming: Clancy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... and rebalanced and diversified its portfolios to ensure risk was managed appropriately. "The reality is that the current market volatility is the result of a complex tapestry of forces that have been at play for many years and one of the main forces ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... the reversionary benefit for surviving spouses from high 60's to 62 per cent. "When peoples savings are taking on market forces, they're at the whim of the market, that throws the risk of the government onto the superannuant and there is no premium paid ...

Brushing up market integrity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... director share trading, margin loans and short selling, IFSA and ACSI have joined forces to outline their views on how market transparency and disclosure should be rendered. According to the Investment and Financial Services Association and Australian ...

Time to get radical: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... much of a slowdown. While this strategy may seem an overreach from how central banks normally leave solutions to market forces, the IMF said this problem is not that simple because low risk events could have but impacts if they went unchecked and this ...