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US instos get active on human rights

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
US-based pension funds and institutions are ramping up their proxy voting efforts across human rights issues with some positive results. The report, Proxy Voting on Labor Standards: A Case by Case Guide for PRI Signatories, found more than 40 shareholder ...

Shadforth buys SA planning firm

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
Shadforth Financial Group has bought South Australian-based financial planning practice, Walmsley Halligan & Co and its parent company, 'Walmsley Halligan'. The Walmsley Halligan move follows the merger and integration of 12 privately-owned fee-based ...

Business cycle dating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... asks the class a question, standing up when called... and with a loud voice answer, "I don't know"! Just last week, Robert Hall, head of the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee, announced that he believes that the recession is likely over because ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... rate inched up to 16.9 per cent from 16.8 per cent. But no! Nien! Nyet! The positive tone on Wall Street even gave Robert Hall - the head of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee - the courage to announce that ...

Iffy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... the report did nothing much for Wall Street. Because it was tainted - tainted by the weather, that is. In fact, even Kieth Hall, the Commissioner of the agency that counted the numbers - the Bureau of Labor Statistics - "cannot say how much February's ...

K2 wins dealer group mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... equities fund, and a $20 million institutional mandate for its international equities strategy in the past five months. Andrew Hall, head of distribution at K2 Asset Management, said Asgard added the K2 Australian fund to its platform and also received ...

S&P backs Schroders team after departure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
Standard & Poor's has maintained its four-star rating on the Schroders Australian Equity fund following the resignation of senior portfolio manager Randal Jenneke. Jenneke worked at Schroders Investment Management Australia for nine years but resigned ...

Hall charts new value investing model

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
Peter Hall, chief investment officer at Hunter Hall, said value investors must revamp their approach and hold more cash reserves, focus on highly liquid stocks and lower expectations on absolute returns. Speaking at an investor presentation in Sydney ...

Don't know where to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
... horses! It's not yet a done deal. A big question mark still hangs around the fate of the US economy. How so? Because Kieth Hall, the Commissioner of the agency that counted the numbers - the Bureau of Labor Statistics - "cannot say how much February's ...

Omega hires insto sales manager

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
Omega Global Investors has hired former Vanguard Investments Australia executive, Erica Hall, as manager of institutional sales as the fund manager launches two bond funds to the market. Hall spent eight years at Vanguard working across institutional ...