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ORIX acquires 90% of Robeco from Rabobank

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... its client service relations. The transaction reflects ORIX's views on the financial market after the global financial crisis. The Japanese group is pursuing now a business model that combines finance with related services in a strategy called "Finance ...

Global listed property outperforms global equities by 8.6%

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... delivered returns in excess of 25% over the year - having rebounded from the lows experienced during the global financial crisis - most managers underperformed their respective benchmark indices over the past year, the report noted. According to the ...

Still pent-up demand as ETFs celebrate record year

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... market is in Europe and the US to understand the potential for growth in Australia. He added that the global financial crisis acted as a wind break to wider uptake of the instruments. "ETFs were gaining a lot of traction before the GFC but Australia ...

Any reason will do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... elections. But major central banks around the world had been busy bodies expanding their money supply since the global financial crisis. Why do you think they're doing that? Yep, to put more liquidity in the system and bring down borrowing costs so people ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... highest close since September 2008 after the collapse of US bank Lehman Brothers at the height of the global financial crisis. Sydney climbed 0.78 per cent, or 38.3 points, to 4,921.0 and Hong Kong added 0.47 per cent, or 108.40 points, to 23,256.93 ...

EDHEC-Risk reveals risk control plan

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... recommended a system of 'shared responsibility' to limit the non-financial risks which emerged following the global financial crisis. The risks refer to those that arise from the operation of the value chain within the industry rather than the investment ...

RBF shakes up fund with two new mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... the scale economies that managers have been accruing, as funds under management have increased since the global financial crisis," he said.

Advisers must ask clients about SRI investing: Australian Ethical

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... Interests Duty requires advisers to at least ask their clients the question," he explains. "An outcome of the global financial crisis has been a loss of trust by clients in the whole system including their financial adviser. Asking the question and understanding ...

Don't forget to remind DB members: ASIC

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... funds to make "timely and appropriate disclosures to members in the wake of poor returns caused by the global financial crisis." The advice follows a review of defined benefit funds' disclosure practices after the financial crisis, when many funds across ...

MetLife launches retirement product

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... early February. Turner said that the decision to develop the product was "born out of lessons from the Global Financial Crisis," as well as a way to deal with Australia's aging population. Development was done over the past two years to make sure the ...