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Basile joins nabInvest

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
Direct asset management firm, nabInvest has hired former Ascalon Capital Managers chief executive Nick Basile as investment director. Basile has more than 20 years investment management experience, previously working as general manager of investments ...

CFS pumps up ESG investing

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
Colonial First State is making ESG research one of its top priorities this year. CFS, which is one of the supporters of VicSuper and HESTA's new ESG Research Australia initiative, said it had been actively supporting these issues for a number of years ...

BTIM CFO resigns

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
BT Investment Management's chief financial officer, Earle Macgregor, has resigned from the firm. Macgregor will step down as chief financial officer at the end of April. Cameron Williamson, BT Investment Management financial controller, will act as ...

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 ...

Groundhog Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
Today, America and Canada held their annual Groundhog Day festivities to see whether spring would come early or winter will stretch six weeks more. Groundhog Day is rooted in ancient European folklore and purports that if a groundhog emerges from its ...

HOSTPLUS appoints Qld partnership manager

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
HOSTPLUS is ramping up its brand awareness campaign in Queensland, hiring hospitality and tourism executive Greg Holmes as manager of strategic partnerships. Holmes previously worked as deputy chair of the Brisbane Visitors and Convention Bureau and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
The Australian share market was slightly higher at noon, buoyed by a modest recovery in the financials sector and following gains on Wall Street. At 1215 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was firmer by 16.7 points or 0.49 per cent at 3459.5, while ...

Investor knowledge fuels SMSF growth

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
The growth of SMSFs is holding steady amid the market downturn, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). SPAA chief executive Andrea Slattery, said the number of SMSFs established has remained constant between 2,500 to 3,000 ...

Confidence yardstick rises

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
A monthly index that measures investor confidence in key sharemarkets rose for the first time in six months, with US institutional investors the most bullish about the performance of equities. The findings came from the State Street Investor Confidence ...

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 ...