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Insurers slow on green IT

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... performance above the environment can still have a significant net benefit. "By placing a greater emphasis on performance metrics such as product innovation, time-to-market and sales effectiveness, insurers will be more effective in pushing products ...

Mums-and-dads want investing made simple

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... to focus on relative fund performance and "raw" returns while institutions focus on more sophisticated alpha and risk metrics. More importantly, mums-and-dads tend to stick with what they are familiar with. "If an investor has always been into high risk ...

Unemployment stays steady

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... steady on 4.2 per cent. The ABS has just reported the latest Labour Force figures and they show almost no change in the key metrics of participation and the unemployment rate. But despite the steady-state nature of the figures, some important trends ...

Goods and services trade deficit narrows to $2.7b

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
Australia's favourable terms of trade metrics is finally counting for something as the balance on goods and services numbers improved by $525 million in March. According to the ABS, in seasonally adjusted terms the deficit on the balance improved by ...

Kelly plans changes at Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... insufficient investment in the distribution network. She wants to put more into staff training, "tools" and better branch-level metrics. She plans to devolve authority from the regional centres and product groups to the branches and business centres. ...

Diversification under the microscope

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
... [collateralised debt obligations] CDOs and those structures lost complete liquidity." "Diversification across a number of different metrics is important and they need to be asking those types of questions to truly understand how many bets have been taken ...

HESTA joins better research alliance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... the inclusion of factors such as corporate governance, human capital management and the environment in their investment metrics. The EAI consists of asset owners and managers collectively responsible for more than US$2.4 trillion. They aim to promote ...

Intangibles the new bottom line in company valuations

... said Anderson. To be able to sustain the company's value, Anderson said fund managers need to look beyond traditional metrics such as risk assessment, competitive analysis, management quality and operational capability. Instead investors need to start ...

ASIC should adopt dollar-base performance metrics: ISN

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
The Industry Super Network (ISN) has called on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to cut through incessant debates about how we measure super fund performance by adopting a 'net benefit to member' (NMTM) model focusing on the ...

Common sense rules in portfolio construction

... that there are people who have superior skill in managing portfolios but they are a rare breed. "Using the particular metrics that are often used to support [these] claims isn't going to get you there." In the end, Christie urged private investors to ...