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Australian foundations sample impact investing

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
Philanthropic foundations need to look to impact investments, including allocating from the corpus to market rate investments where they align with the foundation's mission and programmatic goals. Chief executive of the Global Impact Investing Network ...

It's still the hole, stups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012

Market down 5%: Resources look ugly

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... big disappointment for industrials, while sales have been broadly in-line, and net interest expense has been a positive surprise - reflecting lower interest rates and pay-down of debt. Deutsche Bank attributes a greater than expected resilience to dividends ...

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... China fell to a nine-month low of 47.8 in August from 49.3 in the previous month. More fuel for the hard landers. And surprise surprise! While Markit's eurozone manufacturing PMI rose to 45.3 in August from 44 in the previous month, it remains below ...

Think big on scale, ORFR: APRA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
Focus on the underlying objective, and not the minutiae of methodology. That's the message from APRA to super funds on incoming reforms. Responding to concerns raised during the consultation process and subsequent public forums, APRA's deputy chair ...

Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... access to a database! As for wages, the same I refuse to name strategist was quoted as saying that it was "a material surprise, and raises the uncomfortable prospect that wage pressures may have troughed." "Material surprise" my backside. Doesn't he ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
... session. IG Markets analyst Cameron Peacock said that the stronger than expected opening to the local market was a welcome surprise, and that a variety of sectors were trading strongly. "It's a little bit stronger than what we expected," Mr Peacock said. ...

Dull night on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
The suspense is killing, the wait... boring. Fresh data were released out of America and Europe while we slept, but the results more or less did nothing to alter what financial markets already know or speculate about. There was nothing that surprised ...

Generations split on what causes sleepless nights

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
Research from superannuation fund Sunsuper revealed that the financial nightmares experienced by different generations reflect where they are at within their respective life stages. But what unites the generations, said Sunsuper's general manager, customer ...

Maybe next month

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... tepid at best, deteriorating at worst, and not prepared to exit completely lest we miss out if the CBs spring a kinder surprise. Greed and fear at their best! Speaking of surprises, expect none from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) after its Board ...