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Gray shifts to academia

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... "look around and try to do something different." "I'm looking at spending a bit of time working in places like the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR), and doing some academic research," he said. Gray will embark on several academic ...

CFS engages Innovest for ESG research

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... assessment is an important step in the alignment of our investment processes with the principles outlined in the PRI (United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment). [And] the outcomes from Innovest's research are very much in line with the interests ...

Asia marching on faster than expected

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... countries." This enables China to use trade as a de factor geo-political tool, in-turn putting even more pressure on developed nations to step up or fall behind. But growing trade volumes are also changing the financial mechanics of those trade deals ...

Retirement on hold for longer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
Electoral backlash or not, fiscal pressures and demographic change are forcing nations around the world to slowly raise their retirement age and while Australians won't openly admit it just yet, we will soon have to follow suit. Tim Jenkins, Mercer's ...

Oil prices a two-way street

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... of this cross-border investment has big implications for the future direction of oil prices because oil price-setting nations now need to keep another eye on the economies they are affecting as not only do they need to check their customers can actually ...

India: a country within a country

ALEX DUNNIN REPORTING FROM MUMBAI AND NEW DELHI AT THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... this is also leading to a national debate about education policy and national curriculum which is also something the two nations have in common.

India calls for better financial services

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
Consumption expenditure in India accounts for 62 per cent of GDP placing it in the same league as developed nations like the US and Australia, highlighting that high-value consumer sectors such as financial services could be big investment opportunities ...

Corp super applies ESG screen

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... you will receive competitive returns and this will not be hindered by ESG integration," Lee said. Lee spoke at a United Nations Environmental Programme Financial Initiative Global Roundtable last month.

Hunter Hall turns deep green

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... South Korea and Russia. The fund, called the Deep Green Fund, will not invest in any company domiciled in any whaling nations, countries developing nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction, countries that systematically abuse human rights and will ...

Big boys leaving Australian property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... overseas property than local. However, he said Australia's weathering of the recent sub-prime crisis, compared to other Asian nations, showed the local market's toughness.