Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 51 - 59 of 59 results for "Eclipse"

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... the level in 2003 with outflows of about $200bn in 2006. Given these figures, McKinsey expects GCC foreign investment to eclipse previous investment flows by considerable quantums. Armed with these incoming warchests, McKinsey also expects Gulf investors ...

China's pension to dwarf Australia

MICHAEL HOBBS AND CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
... for Mercer Investment Consulting. Promnitz said that while China's savings system is starting from a small base, it will eclipse Australia's market once it cements its investment infrastructure. "China had a fairly simple, basic, company-based structure ...

Raging bull in sub-prime abattoir

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
The offshore-bulls were running rampant overnight, straight into the abattoir as rumours of a huge sub-prime loss for Merrill Lynch proved to be true. The world's biggest brokerage firm Merrill Lynch reported a blowout in losses in its third quarter ...

Sustainable investing eclipses SRI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
Socially responsible investing built on the ideas of simply screening out bad investments is naA-ve and doesn't do much more than confuse investors, said McKinsey & Co in a report to clients. "Early approaches simplistically screened out 'sin sectors' ...

Citigroup puts a cost on climate change

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
A report has just been released by Citigroup Australia consulting analyst Elaine Prior on the effect of climate change on companies within the ASX100. The analysis follows the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDPP4) which surveyed 225 investors globally with ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
... mostly as a function of higher petrol prices. With this contribution from the July figures the annual total is expected to eclipse last year's record deficit of $US717 billion. In contrast the Japanese surplus increased by about 7 per cent to about $21 ...

Local and global equities fuel returns: SelectingSuper

Superannuation and allocated pension fund members' returns have risen in the year ended January 2006 thanks to the strength of the local equities market and the rebound of international equities. According to the latest SelectingSuper performance index ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2005
The Australian share market is tipped to push to fresh record highs again today as some of the bigger companies unveil earnings and a positive sentiment lingers from the US. However, weaker oil prices and a sharp decline in base metals could weigh on ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2004
The Australian dollar opened firmer after a security scare on the Eurostar train in France and fears Japan may stop intervening in the currency market, drove the United States dollar down against most currencies. At 0700 AEDT the local currency was ...
PAGE:
6