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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after industrial metals and gold fell in overnight trading. At 0750 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index was down 13 points at 5,264. In company news today, Brambles ...

UN PRI needs public reporting

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
The United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) board should mandate a public reporting system on the adoption of responsible investing policies to avoid the process becoming just another box ticking exercise, according to a leading ...

Financial Ombudsman Service launched

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has given the thumbs up to the establishment of a new Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). The FOS will represent the merger of the three biggest complaints schemes operating in the financial ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
People arguing that Australia should relax its inflation targets are peculiar and misguided, argues Ken Henry, secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. Henry's comments, in a speech he gave yesterday to a forum of Australian Business Economists in Sydney ...

From cash to prosperity: AFA

Financial planners will be given a helping hand at this year's Association of Financial Advisers' (AFA) national forum by some of the planning industry's best to set them on their paths to success. Richard Klipin, chief executive of the AFA said this ...

Canadian RMBS not the answer: S&P

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... government-guaranteed body - such as the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation model outlined by the Australian Securitisation Forum - will be a viable solution to the crisis, said S&P. One of the key bones of contention lies in the competitiveness ...

ASEAN's mute economic muscle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
The near invisible response of ASEAN to the Myanmar disaster highlights how despite all the talk of the world realigning economically, the Asia-Pacific region still point to the West for the heavy global lifting. ASEAN, or the Association of South East ...

Super funds to resurrect ailing RMBS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... 2008. Greg Medcraft, executive director and chief executive of the newly-established industry body Australian Securities Forum (ASF) acknowledged that Australian financial institutions are currently suffering from high costs of funds compared to other ...

Fix productivity, fix education

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
All the debate about up-skilling through sharpening our educational curriculum might be missing one key detail - students don't like technical subjects and it's a major long term threat to our global productivity. A review just released by the Australian ...

Managed accounts expands asset mix

Managed accounts are no longer limited to providing a platform for domestic and international equities. MA providers will soon include term deposits, fixed interest products, structured products and agribusiness. Speaking at the Financial Standard forum  ...