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Aviva covers risky jobs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Aviva has launched a new Income Daily Living product that insures non-working spouses and Australians in high risk occupations. The new product will offer protection to occupations traditionally classified as 'too risky', such as labourers, window cleaners ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Two million jobs and counting. This is the number of Americans that will bring increased profits to Campbell Soup come Christmas time. And because these ordinary taxpayers' have to give part of their now non-existent income and drastically reduced wealth ...

Green funds to benefit from new govt policies

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008

Que sera, sera

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... Central Bank and its Treasury (as with others in many parts of the world) are employing leverage to buy toxic assets to clean the mess created by excessive leverage and toxic assets. Who will get these off their balance sheets when it comes time for ...

Four Bad 'Bers'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
Today we welcome the last of the 'ber' months - December. Chances are this month will go the way of the other three 'bers' that preceded it as fresh data proceeds to tell the story of global economic weakness and financial market uncertainty. While ...

Clean tech sector continues to expand

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
Financial planners should be confident the clean technology sector is a viable long-term opportunity after US based investment in the sector rose 55 per cent to more than $2.4 billion over a year, according to CVC Sustainable Investments. Sean Wiles ...

CalPERS grows green strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... shows initial signs of real progress." And while it is too early to report meaningful investment returns, relatively young clean tech funds are showing signs of improved performance while reducing carbon emissions and energy and water use, and creating ...

Free money can be costly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 23 NOV 2008
... crisis progresses. The asset price deflation that is currently underway still has some ways to go as corporations continue to clean their balance sheets. In this process of cleansing and deleveraging, jobs are lost and demand weakens and assets are sold ...

Responsible investments still in vogue

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... with $128m of new money flowing into products which focus on the themes of climate change, carbon liability, water, waste, clean energy, sustainable agriculture and sustainable property. Louise O'Halloran, executive director of RIAA, said it had been ...

Sisyphian challenge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... mentioned in the past, this will involve pain. Businesses will shudder and jobs will be lost. But ultimately, this will help clean the system of its excesses and perhaps serve as a lesson to humankind that debt, like fire, has a useful purpose but could ...