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Green funds to benefit from new govt policies

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008

Climate change takes priority: Zurich

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
Climate change should be at the top of insurers' concerns as it directly impacts product premiums and the bottom lines of insurers worldwide, according to Zurich. "Climate change should not be on page five - it needs to be on page one," said David Smith ...

You are what you Google

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Among the top finance term searches on Google this year were 'superannuation', 'interest rates' and 'investment banks' but as to which keyword was more popular than the other changed state by state, according to Google Australia. The world's largest ...

FMs back a winner 50pc of the time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... ability to find the real winners as demonstrated by the average win-loss ratio of 102 per cent." Rainmaker Research of the top 50 actively managed global equities funds, found similar results with 27 or more than half of active global fund managers underperformed ...

Dow Jones launches Islamic ASEAN index

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... standard for Islamic indexing in the past decade." The DJIM ASEAN Index is weighted by free-float market capitalisation and the top five components are PTT PCL (Thailand, Oil & Gas), Sime Darby (Malaysia, Industrial Goods & Services), Singapore Airlines ...

Pascoe shares VFMC strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
Justin Pascoe, the newly appointed chief investment officer of the $36.4 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation, will share his insight on how to buffer the fund from the global financial crisis at this year's IMCA conference. Pascoe, an ex-Goldman ...

Morrison Carr triples adviser base

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... Melbourne, three in Queensland and one in Adelaide. Alexander projects Morrison Carr will improve its ranking on next year's Top 100 Licensees list "by 10 or 15 places" based on his projections for the company's adviser growth in the short term.

Cybercriminals target fin services

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... still the major centre of 'servers' that then solicit potential buyers through internet chatrooms. Australia is among the top ten, ranking sixth as the source of servers selling stolen financial data to the black market. Australia is also one of the ...

Ho hum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... Mae) were bailed out less than two months ago and the equity market kept on searching for a bottom. In between, measures on top of measures have been planned or put into effect. The G20 even held its summit! Has the investment and economic environment ...

No more short-selling: IML

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... short-selling is still misunderstood by some segments of the industry when in fact, shorting is just another tool to reward top-performing stocks and penalise poor performers. But in response to the global financial crisis and the fingerpointing that ...