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Finance industry groups respond to ETS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... said that the government should however not excessively shield companies either because that would simply remove the incentive for them to develop effective carbon mitigation and adaptation strategies and undermine their long term value to investors. ...

PIS calls for industry and retail ceasefire

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... commission that you receive from a majority of products and services is very similar," said Evans, continuing, "There is no incentive to use one product over another. The commission issue from a product perspective is therefore washed out."

Advisers snub commission-free ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... provide trail commissions. "Unlike managed funds, there are no trailing commissions which means there is no financial incentive for financial advisers to promote ETFs to their clients," noted CommSec. This information follows comments by Adam Seccombe ...

Solaris strikes $400m FUM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... past," said Earnshaw. Instead, he said the firm's out-performance is linked to the ownership structure of the business. "Incentive is paramount. The sense of ownership in this business drives us to excel at what we all enjoy doing - outperforming the ...

Fix contributions, then worry about fees: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
Getting super contributions up to 15 per cent and pushing retirees to income streams is more important than fixing fees and administrative efficiencies, said superannuation's political architect and former Prime Minister, Paul Keating. "You can fluff ...

Aviva matches green rebates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
... efficiency and renewable energy rebates. Aviva analyst programmer, Barry Holmes, has already recieved the work place incentive by installing a grey water system in his household, which recycles waste water from laundries and bathrooms for use on the ...

Aust must avoid Europe's ETS disaster

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... were estimated to be $14 billion in the first year of trading alone, she said. The result was energy producers had no incentive to lower their emissions, which explains in part why most European countries - unlike Australia - are no where near achieving ...

Insurers slow on green IT

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
The insurance industry may be conscious of mitigating global warming, but few insurers are truly committed to building a green IT environment, according to Datamonitor. A recent survey of 200 global insurers found that over 25 per cent of life insurers ...

Perpetual sells $250m infra funds to Palisade

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
Infrastructure may be all the rage but Perpetual has opted to hand in the reins to its infrastructure funds to Palisade Investment Partners, part of Pinnacle Investment Management. As part of the deal, infrastructure specialist Palisade will own the ...

FBI sting catches $2.4bn mortgage fraud

... needs to, over time, better align their remuneration structures with end investors. Particularly with hedge funds...the incentive is for people to do extreme things because the reward system is so skewed towards the manager and not for protecting the ...