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Climate change rhetoric yet to match investor reality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
While the financial services industry acknowledges the significant long term risks posed by climate change, there are still tremendous gaps between rhetoric and reality of what investors are doing about it, reveals a major study just released by Finsia. ...

AIG secures extra A$54bn in liquidity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
The future of AIG Life Australia might be assured, but the US government has been forced to extend the lifeline extended to AIG in the US by another A$54 billion. The new arrangement is being structured through a securities lending agreement where the ...

Online drill for gold

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... delivered to a designated bank or location, or stored through the company's recommended security vault storage facilities. Alex Jamieson, goldsilverbullion.com.au chief executive and founder said gold and silver bullions provide an investment antidote ...

AIG Australia to be retained

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
AIG international has advised the market and policyholders that it will be retaining a majority interest in its Asian insurance companies, including its Australian life insurance operation AIG Life Australia. The announcement is part of AIG's commitment ...

US Senate passes bail-out 74 to 25

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
The bail-out legislation has been overwhelmingly approved by the US Senate, but the bigger test will be the congressional vote tomorrow, which isn't expected to get such a smooth ride. This morning Australian time, the Senate voted in favour of the ...

Blame planners, not me: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
Just when you thought the financial crisis couldn't get any crazier, former Treasurer Peter Costello said planners are to blame for super fund members losing money from their super fund accounts following the stockmarket rout. "The government didn't ...

APRA rebuffs super stats critics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
APRA has smacked down criticism by retail groups that the regulator's superannuation fund performance research is flawed. Ross Jones, APRA deputy chairman, in a letter accompanying the release of their report, A Response to [the] Review of APRA's Investment ...

AIG not impacted by bail-out failure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
This morning's bail-out failure does not impact AIG, whose funding has already been approved and put in place. Congress this morning rejected the bail-out legislation 228 votes to 205 after two-thirds of Republican legislators dismissed the bill's pre-conditions ...

Markets are a public good: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
Australia may be a small country but it took Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2,700 word speech to the United Nations on Friday to articulate a way out of the global financial mess. The speech was in contrast to US Treasury secretray Henry Paulson's widely ...

The Cambridge Strategy appoints currency expert

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
Active currency risk manager, The Cambridge Strategy, is to set up an office in Hong Kong and has appointed Sydney-based Alexandra Edstein to help expand the company's operations in the Asia-Pacific region. With more than 20 years of experience in currency ...