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Korea and Taiwan may move to developed status

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... Korea and Taiwan from emerging market to developed market status. The move has been under discussion with the two Asian nations nearly pushed up a notch in last year's annual review. South Korea missed out because of currency market trading issues, a ...

Financial services honoured with Queen's favour

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... Accreditation Review Committee. He was also founding chairman of Fund Executives Association and works with the United Nations Refugee Agency - Australia for UNHCR. Darryl Seccombe is the managing director of DSA Financial, authorised representatives ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... from the IMF means. It means nothing for the IMF - except of course, an opportunity has been created for emerging market nations to have a crack at the top post. I'm talking about real negative stats delivered on our screens over the past 24 hours (OK ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... struggling economies and inflating ones were calling for? Lower commodity prices reduce inflationary pressures in emerging nations allowing their respective central banks to go for greater growth without overheating their economies. Lower commodity prices ...

Gillard urges China investment relationship

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... with China after speaking at a China-Australia business forum, with talk of tight economic integration between the two nations. As part of her address, Gillard said that China had a direct and strong link with Australia, having helped Australia through ...

FTSE launches ESG investment product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... committed to integrating ESG considerations into their investment and stewardship approaches by signing up to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

SG needed to save retirees: Shorten

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... fund trustee, said poverty rates among Australian retirees are already worse than OECD standards. "We are 26 out of 30 (nations) in terms of incomes of older Australians as a proportion of the population as a whole," he said. "How can we have the fourth ...

No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... magnitude earthquake. But did equity markets care? Here's Bloomberg's overnight wrap: "The MSCI gauge of 24 developed nations climbed 0.8 percent at 4 p.m. in New York and is up 5 percent since March 16... Nine stocks gained for every one that fell in ...

Adviser award highlights need for women-centric advice

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... will be rolled out around Australia in May, to coincide with the 100th International Women's Day calendar and the United Nations 'Equality Means Business' agenda. "Our own statistics show us that although women make up 45 per cent of the Australian workforce ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... the list of market uncertainties as the United States, the United Kingdom and France - with the blessing of the United Nations - started bombing Qaddafi's bum off his throne. And by the looks of it, they may have to unleash a military tsunami not only ...