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HSBC invests $100m in water

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
HSBC Group has announced a five-year global investment of $100 million in water following findings that by 2050 the GDP of the top 10 river basins will exceed that of the USA, Japan and Germany combined. A new report commissioned by HSBC from Frontier ...

Sequencing risk impacts super savings

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
The post-global financial crisis combined with longevity issues has brought strategies to manage sequencing risk to the forefront in Australia, according to Chad Padowitz, chief investment officer at Wingate Asset Management. Although many retirees ...

Advisers ready to move clients back to equities

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
Zurich's investment business in Australia has released new findings that show more than half of advisers surveyed are ready to re-balance their customers' portfolios to hold less cash. The nationwide survey of 200 advisers showed that 68% indicated ...

Risk needs to shift in line with mission

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
Towers Watson has released research that suggests that the investment industry needs a new approach to risk management to align risk with mission. "It is time to promote better risk management over more measurement and we need to be careful not to mistake ...

CSIRO questions Aus economy after the boom ends

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
A CSIRO researcher has questioned where Australia's economic output will come from once the commodities boom ends. "We are a highly exposed market because three things that we make, make up 40% of our exports," said Dr Stefan Hajkowicz, principal scientist ...

NSW universities face $4.3bn in super liabilities

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
The New South Wales auditor-general has cited a "critical need" for NSW universities to negotiate funding arrangements for superannuation liabilities with the Australian Government, after an audit of the state's 10 universities. The affected schemes ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street with traders again looking to events across the Atlantic ahead of a long holiday weekend. At 0800 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was down 13 points ...

Equipsuper pulls plug on Vision merger

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
The board of Equipsuper has voted unanimously to withdraw from its planned merger with Vision Super. Equipsuper has cited differences at Board level on the investment model to be employed as the motive behind the decision, although integration of the ...

Coalition clears up FOFA questions

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
With FOFA legislation due for debate in the Senate next month, the Opposition's spokesperson on Financial Services has provided details on what FOFA would look like under a coalition government. Speaking at an Association of Financial Advisers Budget ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street with traders again looking to events across the Atlantic ahead of a long holiday weekend. At 0800 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was down ...