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Citigroup puts a cost on climate change

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
A report has just been released by Citigroup Australia consulting analyst Elaine Prior on the effect of climate change on companies within the ASX100. The analysis follows the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDPP4) which surveyed 225 investors globally with ...

Scale fails to buy cheaper premiums

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
For superannuation fund trustees arguing that scale is a panacea, as far as insurance is concerned it has very little impact on pricing premiums, according to a Rainmaker report. Rainmaker's associate director of research, Andrew Keevers, said the 2006 ...

Economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
Prime Minister John Howard has announced a range of measures aimed at easing the impact of the fuel crisis bought about by rising crude oil prices, tensions in the Middle East and the increasing demands by the industrial expansion in China and India. ...

MacarthurCook and JF Meridian trade $32m Canberra property

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2006
MacarthurCook Funds Management has bought into Canberra's hot commercial property market, taking on a $32 million property from JF Meridian Management Limited. Andrew Butler, JFM director, said, "We have added significant value to the asset with our ...

Urban Pacific wins prestigious global real estate award

Melbourne-based Urban Pacific's residential development Kensington Banks has won the prestigious international real estate award, the FIABCI Prix d'Excellence, this year. Completed in 2004, Kensington Banks is a 38 hectare redevelopment and 11 year ...

Asset Super to upgrade insurance and offer super splitting

Asset Super is set to deliver twice the benefits to its members with plans to revamp its insurance offering and to allow 'contribution splitting', a tax saving strategy for couples. Asset's general manager, John Paul, said the group's insurance outsourcing ...

Gore says industry should steer by the stars

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) kicked off its annual conference this week with keynote speaker Al Gore telling the financial services industry to "steer by the stars". Gore spoke with the panache expected of a former American ...

Zurich upgrades policies for free

Zurich Financial Services Australia has upgraded more than 50,000 life risk insurance policies for free as part of its ongoing program to improve its products. Clients who are eligible for the free upgrade will benefit from an increase in their maximum ...

NZ Super Fund buys more sustainable assets

The New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) continues its push into the sustainability sector after buying a 12,000 hectare forestry estate from Mirvac's New Zealand Sustainable Investments Fund (NZSIF). James Fielding Funds Management (JFFM), the funds management ...

Asset awards AAS admin tender contract

Asset Super, with 114,000 members and over $1billion under management, have awarded AAS with the tender for its fund administration contract. The contract, held over the last three years by CitiStreet, was put out to tender in keeping with the outsourcing ...