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New tech counters terrorist attacks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... Centre (AUSTRAC), Australia's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulator and specialist financial intelligence unit. "For the last several years, regulation has required only international payments to be filtered against sanctioned ...

RM advisers break through 1000 barrier

... According to SEQUAL's own Reverse Mortgage Study 'Its on the House', conducted in conjunction with Retail Finance Intelligence, 78 per cent of those over the age of 60 have heard of reverse mortgages but only 40 per cent understood the basic premise ...

SEQUAL calls for better RM literacy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
... benefits of reverse mortgages after a survey revealed 60 per cent of retirees do not understand them. Retail Finance Intelligence (RFI) interviewed 1000 Australians aged over 60 and found 78 per cent of respondents had heard of reverse mortgages but ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... S&P/IFCG emerging market series. All S&P Shariah Indices are screened by Kuwait-based consulting company Ratings Intelligence Partners, which specialises in Islamic investments. The company's researchers meet directly with a dedicated Shariah Supervisory ...

Bravura and Perpetual develop new SOA package

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
... dynamic financial services industry." In addition to Sonata Business Services, Bravura will release Sonata Business Intelligence (SBI) - a data management and analytical reporting product.

Australia IT needs more R&D

... behind other OECD countries on investment in research and development (R&D), according to a new study by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Sponsored by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the study called "The means to compete: Benchmarking IT industry ...

Being smart doesn't guarantee wealth

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... money to waste. The study, conducted by Jay Zagorsky from Ohio State University, found that people of below average intelligence were just about as wealthy as those with higher IQ scores. The good news is this means it doesn't take a rocket scientist ...

Economic round-up: BRICs get richer

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... market capitalisation built on the stable performances of the previous year. However, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a slowdown is expected in real GDP global growth, down from 5.4 per cent in 2006 to a forecast 4.8 per cent in 2007 and ...

Austock adds to award-winning research team

... services analyst, while ex-Alliance Bernstein analyst Thomas Hudson joins as the property analyst. Former Market Intelligence and Strategy Centre Australia (MISC) assistant research analyst Andrew Cleeland will be the database analyst. The appointments ...

MTAA Super appoints new chairman

... Health and held various roles in the Department of Defence, where he was promoted to Deputy Secretary, Strategy and Intelligence in 1991. From October 1999, he served a three year term as Secretary of Defence. "Naturally, the Board is delighted to have ...