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NGS Super considers Shariah-compliant option

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
NGS Super is looking to launch a Shariah-compliant investment option based on the feedback from the Islamic members of the fund. Chief executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball told the audience at yesterday's Rainmaker Marketing Symposium that the fund is working ...

Hung

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
By now many of you, fellow Australians, would have had enough of the commentaries, in-depth analyses, finger-pointing, spins, recriminations, soul searching, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera that preceded and followed last Saturday's Australian elections. ...

Govt to ramp up FinLit in national school curriculum

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... Government will invest $10 million into financial literacy curriculum projects, including its integration into the national school curriculum supplemented by teacher training by ASIC. Financial literacy is already well established in current school curriculum ...

Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... is typically the slowest month of the third quarter for retailers as they clear out summer merchandise for the back- to-school season, the second-largest sales period after the year-end holidays." Burn its left eyeballs! Next. US consumer prices rose ...

Aussie planners should turn to Asia: Hockey

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... opportunity in your profession as growth into Asia." He pegged financial advice in many parts of Asia as "cumbersome, old school, [and] not necessarily independent at all". "It is rather rudimentary," he said. Australia's close proximity to Asia is key ...

Should super go social?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... Telstra State of the Nation Report, more than 70 per cent of Australian mums are on Facebook, with the average age of a school mum at 40-plus.

Deutsche strategy head joins Citi

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... Citi has hired analysts across various sectors, including Mark Greenwood from JP Morgan and Daled Koenders from London School of Economics to cover the energy sector; Alex Smith from JP Morgan and Victor Windeyer from Sunshine Heart to cover healthcare ...

ASFA Awards recognise top comms strategies

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... now in its sixth year running as a standalone event, featured entries that included a Facebook campaign, an online 'super school' website and an annual report that doesn't read nor look like a conventional one. While these strategies sound more like ...

Let the reporting season begin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... of whether a higher yuan is good or bad. For obvious reasons - your market positioning - you'll tend to agree with one school of thought to another. But after Wall Street hours news are undeniably positive. These could not be spun any other way. Aluminium ...

Cbus and St Hilliers tag housing project

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... medium density residential and commercial development. The site is bordered by the Darlinghurst Gaol - now the National Art School - and the NSW Supreme Court. Cbus Property and St Hilliers expect the construction of this development project to start ...