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Cognacs and chocolates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... Stanley - is reportedly changing its business model and plans to divest more non-core businesses and shrink itself by a third of its former self. I could still recall trying to keep tabs of the seemingly unending changes in the company's name back in ...

Instos target water usage

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
An alliance of 16 institutional and asset managers representing more than $2 trillion in assets including Souls Fund Management and Aviva Investors has sent a letter urging 100 major multinational company chief executives to carefully manage their water ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... by government and other financial institutions. "Another economic institution we've built [apart from banks] gives us a third front to fight on - compulsory super," said Nick Gruen in a newspaper column and major economic blog last week. The proposal ...

FMs turn to equities in 2009

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... 13 managers held an overweight view on equities in the fourth quarter of 2008. This is an increase of 22 per cent in the third quarter, indicating that fund managers are going to usher in 2009 with a cautious eye on equities. "Fund managers remain bearish ...

Super funds reject calls to cut super contrib

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... may also bring superannuation out of the shadows. "Another economic institution we've built [apart from banks] gives us a third front to fight on - compulsory super," said Nick Gruen in a newspaper column and major economic blog last week. The proposal ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
The Australian sharemarket was lower at noon as resource stocks dragged the local bourse lower after commodity prices declined. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had fallen 18.9 points, or 0.54 per cent, to 3,449.2, while the broader All ...

Filled half-empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
The Australian economy grew by 0.1 per cent in the third quarter - the slowest since December 2000. Is the glass half-full? Or is it half-empty? Gauging from the headlines that followed the release of the Australian National Accounts, the domestic economy's ...

Clean tech sector continues to expand

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... investment manager, said a record level of venture capital investment in US based clean technology companies occurred in the third quarter of this year. Wiles said the sector received a boost from the US government's $700 billion Housing and Recovery ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... mortgage and asset-backed securities was offset by poor economic news. Figures showed the US economy shrank 0.5 per cent in the third quarter, alongside a record fall in US house prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 38.07 points, or 0.45 per ...

UniSuper ramps up Asia corporate governance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... extending its proxy voting policy for shareholders to include ventures in the region. UniSuper has already commenced voting on a third of its stocks in Asia, representing more than 400 companies in the region. The super fund's increasing allocation into ...