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Philippines axes cheques for ATMs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
The Philippines is revving up its pension scheme by phasing out archaic cheques disbursement arrangements for an ATM-based system. The country's Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) brought the new system in place last month. The fund's 81,000 ...

Customer service goes high tech

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
Vignette has rolled out a new online system that brings traditionally hard to access wealth management customer service to the World Wide Web. The new Vignette Case Manager allows organisations to automate and track customer transactions across multiple ...

Aviva matches green rebates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
Aviva Australia employees could receive an extra $300 in their pay cheque after the firm announced it is matching the state and federal government's water efficiency and renewable energy rebates. Aviva analyst programmer, Barry Holmes, has already recieved ...

Bakers launch alt energy retail fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Alternative energy adviser and fund manager Bakers Investment Group (BIG) is launching its alternative energy retail fund, Bakers Alternative Energy Customised Portfolio. The fund will invest in roughly 75 to 100 Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) ...

Emissions trading won't fix climate change: expert

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Emissions trading won't lower emissions production as all it does is force up the profits of carbon producers particularly energy producers, argues the German MP who pioneered their feed-in tariff electricity system. Hans -Josef Fell, a leading Greens ...

QBE drops PI and D&O insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
QBE Insurance Australia will no longer provide professional indemnity (PI) and directors and officers (D&O) insurance to financial planners and stockbrokers from June onwards following an internal review. In January, the Corporations Act was amended ...

Carbon transport the next big thing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Investors looking for a radical way to grow their savings should watch out for new industries that will develop out of the storage and transportation of carbon dioxide, as the move towards using clean coal power stations continue to gain traction. "On ...

Swiss sustainable FUM up 67 per cent

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
The Swiss sustainable investment market jumped 67 per cent last year to $33 billion at the end of December 2007, according to investment consulting and research company onValues. The Zurich based firm surveyed 19 investment managers on "specialist sustainable ...

Future Fund to adopt ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
The Federal Government's Future Fund has confirmed it will be looking at environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues as part of its investment strategies in 2008. The government-backed $59.6 billion fund was highlighted by Australian Conservation ...

Bluestone cuts back hard

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
Bluestone Group is the latest lender to make big cuts in its lending program in the face of increasingly risk-averse global debt markets. Bluestone, a specialist supplier of non-conforming loans, told staff and business partners yesterday that it would ...