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Climate change opportunities, not just costs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... be the first," said Senator Wong. For example, Japan is introducing one while Canada, Europe, New Zealand and selected regions in the US already have established schemes nothwithstanding that some are quite narrow and flawed compared to the one proposed ...

Market Movers Overnight (8 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... that the assessment is much worse than the topline assessment. The BoJ said the economy worsened in eight of its nine regions as commodity prices remained elevated. The rise in commodity prices is expected to slow consumer consumption in all regions ...

Securitor adds BBV to network

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... said joining Securitor would enable its planners to more effectively service new and existing clients. "The two coastal regions of NSW and Queensland that we service are both experiencing a continued growth of retirees who are financial savvy and demand ...

Schroders Greater Middle East fund raises $630m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... investment and equity markets had a "very low and in some cases negative" correlation to world markets and other emerging regions. And while the region is renowned for its oil reserves, Conway said this represented a fraction of the investment opportunities ...

New multi-managers challenge incumbents: S&P

... newer, younger managers that are fresh out of the trading rooms at the larger banks and are now managing funds in new regions, strategies, or asset classes, he said. "These are finding their way into multi-manager products now that new CIOs are taking ...

Asia will weather global slowdown: EFIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... Asian economic growth figures could slow to levels, those growth levels would still be higher compared to other developed regions. "A majority of observers begin their remarks with the observation that in an increasingly integrated world economy 'of ...

House prices volatile but chance of big fall lesson

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
... value growth is flattening across the board, even in the traditional growth hotspots of the inner city and metro-coastal regions. In Melbourne overall growth rate has slowed considerably during 2008 with the first four months recording a fall in property ...

Hedge funds post worst Q1

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
... and mining and credit exposure. Meanwhile, emerging market fund managers struggled during the first quarter, as these regions attempted to insulate from the global credit crisis, the report said. "Macro emerging market traders who entered the year with ...

Investors look east, Australia falls behind

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... to the world economy since 1995. But the editors of the survey warned that the trends in freedom are mixed across the regions. "Improved scores in business freedom, fiscal freedom, government size and investment freedom were offset by worsened scores ...

SAP and CSC join forces on pricing

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... factors and statistically determines a product's price elasticity to set a list of product rates for the various sales regions. "Interfacing CSC's Hogan Core Banking System with the SAP Price Optimization application gives a large percentage of the world's ...