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Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... trimming and cutting and lopping their fiscal deficits. But the United States is not. China is not. Japan is not. Emerging nations are not. Or at least, not as drastic as the Europeans. I think this is slowly sinking into market psychology. Have you ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... choppy trade. Investors shrugged off a weekend pledge by the leaders of the Group of 20 industrialised and developing nations to halve their government deficits by 2013. LONDON - European stock markets recorded solid gains on Monday, powered by a better-than-expected ...

CFSGAM studies infrastructure ESG risk

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... course for the infrastructure team on the environmental and social issues facing the asset class. CFSGAM signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) in 2007. Perry Clausen, global co-head of CFSGAM Infrastructure, said it's ...

African dev't needs private equity: Mobius

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... investment outlook for Africa is positive as its agricultural products and abundance of water will decide the rise and fall of nations in the future. The problem is the region's capital markets are still immature. "There are many opportunities for private ...

CFSGAM targets global trends with commodities fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... of factors including a burgeoning global population is putting finite resources under pressure. According to the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank, the world's population will grow from 6.5 billion people in 2005 to over 9 billion people by 2050 ...

Up, down and round and round

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... fragile. Just when financial markets were being soothed by an OECD report raising its growth forecasts for its 30-member nations and positive economic data out of America, Financial Times cried booh! Wall Street started with a cheery disposition at the ...

Solaris hires ex-Suncorp ESG manager

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... the Suncorp Investment Management Ethical Balanced Trust and other ESG portfolios. Solaris is a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), which encourages asset owners, investment managers and professional service ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... not out of the question," Tarullo said in prepared remarks. Investors are concerned that the debt problems in European nations like Greece and Portugal will spill over to other countries, cause a cascade of massive losses for big banks and in turn halt ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... their public finances in order has added to pressure on the euro, already reeling from the Greek debt crisis. Eurozone nations also transferred their first 14.5 billion euros ($A20.48 billion) in rescue loans to Greece to allow Athens to cover 9 billion ...

Global investors push for corruption info

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... (ICGN) and UN Global Compact. The statement was sent to companies in nine countries and all signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) including Boston Common Asset Management, Hermes EOS and AP1 the Swedish National ...