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

Search Results

Showing 761 - 770 of 1136 results for "A3 Group"

Fund managers struggle to beat index

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... NovaPort Premier Smaller Companies that gained 10.69 per cent and SGH ICE that rose 6.82 per cent. Their performance as a group was outstanding compared with global equities fund managers. Global equities outperformed the domestic index with the MSCI ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... ($A4.63 billion) for Italy's Parmalat to create the sector's top company. Lactalis already owns 29 per cent of Parmalat and a group of Italian companies has been scrambling to block the takeover amid nationalist sentiment and fears over the French company's ...

FTSE launches ESG investment product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Institutional investors and fund managers can use a new Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings data service from global index provider FTSE Group to identify eligible companies for investment. The FTSE4Good ESG ratings product, launched this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
The Australian market has received a mostly positive set of leads from weekend offshore trading, with Wall Street closing higher and commodities prices ending firmer. At 0805 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 11 points ...

US Goldman Sachs seeks full ownership of Aust arm

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
Goldman Sachs Group is set to acquire the remaining 55 per cent in Goldman Sachs & Partners Australia Group (GS&P), to complete its acquisition of the JBWere venture. The acquisition will now give complete control of the $1 billion-plus investment banking ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
The Australian share market had slid into the red by noon on low trading volumes as investors waited for direction from forthcoming offshore economic news. At 1202 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 6.7 points, or 0.14 per cent, at 4,893.4 ...

ISN urges members to seek intra-fund advice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
Industry super funds have started a national advertising campaign across major metropolitan newspapers to urge their members to seek financial advice from their fund. Umbrella group, Industry Super Network (ISN), said the awareness campaign would help ...

Unknown unknowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... According to enotes.com, "The importance of the ides of March for Caesar is that it is the day he will be assassinated by a group of conspirators, including Brutus and Cassius." Shakespeare immortalised this quote in his opus "Julius Caesar" and has ...

Greeks, chips and slicks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... of a more moderate though still optimistic view of the sector rather than any active concern about the chip stocks as a group." But we in the business know that most "sell" recommendations are spelled "H-O-L-D". "Stuck in the middle with you." Or was ...

Dutch pension tackles longevity risk and ageing population

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... a lower pension or a required increase in pension premiums." Another possible solution would be to split the fund into a group of younger or active members, and a group of older or retired members, and manage the fund differently for these two groups. ...