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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower following mixed performances on international markets overnight. At 0754 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was down nine points at 5053. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve ...

Don't lump Asia Pacific in with EM fall

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
Investors must not unfairly mark down structurally sound Asia Pacific economies following the disappointing recent performance of the emerging markets region as a whole, according to Standard Life Investments investment director, global strategy Jason ...

The game markets play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
"Your love keeps lifting me higher Than I've ever been lifted before... I'm gonna be at your side, forevermore." - Jackie Wilson Forget Jackie Wilson, Bipbop Benny's (Ben Bernanke) rendition of this tune last week sounded much, much better to financial ...

Super investors scrutinise companies over LDC working conditions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... Australian Ethical and Corporate Analysis, Enhanced Responsibility (CAER), arguing that China already offers many ethically sound investment opportunities. The ACSI report found a significant shift of investment from emerging markets such as China to ...

End of QE sounds death knell for 'zombie' stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
The tapering of quantitative easing (QE) will burst the bubble in high-yielding 'zombie' stocks, according to UK-based Duncan Lawrie Private Bank's James Humphreys. Stimulus measures by central banks in Europe, the US and Japan have propped up global ...

Rubik completes Provisio takeover

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... outstanding product that addresses a different wealth advice segment to Rubik's COIN software. This is a strategic and financially sound acquisition," commented Wayne Wilson, managing director of Rubik Wealth. "Components in Provisio's scaled advice ...

Big banks move into SBB space

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
The Benevolent Society is teaming up with Westpac Institutional Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to issue Australia's second Social Benefit Bond (SBB) to fund the establishment of The Family Preservation Service. The service will focus on ...

SBBs to be part of NGS Super's new ethical option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
Industry fund NGS Super is currently designing an ethical option that will include environmentally sound investments with other ethical investments such as social benefit bonds (SSBs). "We are taking our current green shares option, and folding that ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... labour market...hiring increased at a "measured pace" in several Districts. "Modest", "moderate", "measured pace". Does this sound that taper off is coming to you? But that's what the equity markets are imagining now - Fed tapering alongside still unsustainable ...

Bureaucratic processes hinder infrastructure investment: ISN

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... themselves to be long-term responsible investors and they seek stable, income-generating investments capable of delivering sound returns with a time horizon measured in decades."