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Aviva bags diversity award

Savings and insurance giant Aviva won the United Nations' Global Diversity and Innovation Award for its international diversity programmes. The judges chose Aviva for its"innovative" approach to embedding diversity within the company. Two years ago ...

Investment treasure in emerging Europe: QWL

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... mandated to target investment opportunities in companies operating in new EU member countries as well as south-east European nations due to join the EU and former Soviet Union states. QWL said investment in these regions should be attractive to Australian ...

Not easy being green

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... credibility in that area. There is also a $40 million investment planned towards reducing methane emissions. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization recently reported that methane - 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping ...

Portfolio Partners offsets co2 with tree-planting program

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... established itself in the Australian market for sustainable investment, becoming the first fund manager to sign the United Nations 'Principles for Responsible Investment', and launching their own Sustainability Fund in 2006. Through the tree-planting ...

DeAM launches global agribusiness fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
... prosperity has had an enormous impact on consumption patterns particularly among growing middle classes in developing nations. The DWS Global Equity Agribusiness Fund is the first in a series of new global funds DAM will be introducing. The minimum investment ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
... worries about inflation stirred earlier in the week. Iran's determination to enrich uranium in defiance of the United Nations also made stock investors nervous. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 54.64 points, or 0.43 per cent, at 12,683.77. The ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
... basis and this is expected to slip to 67th by 2050 according to the US Bureau of Census' International Data Base of 227 nations. By 2050, India is anticipated to have outgrown China with a population of 1.8 billion.

PIS gets behind the wheel for racing sponsorship

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... was an effective marketing vehicle to support PIS' global expansion plans. "PIS is already represented in six of the 25 nations which are competing in the A1 Grand Prix and we are looking for opportunities in some of the other countries competing at ...

Aviva goes green with carbon outputs

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2007
... partnership with Conservation Volunteers Australia to plant native Australian flora, along with being a signatory to the United Nations Environmental Program Financial Initiatives." The carbon neutralisation program will operate on a retrospective basis ...

T.Rowe Price wins Chinese govt fund mandate

... million. That is, the population of those over 65 (336 million) will be similar to the total population of 15 European Union nations. Michelle Baltazar