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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 ...

Self-employed lack super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
Nearly one-third of all self-employed Australians have zero superannuation, new research shows. Data released by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia Limited (ASFA) show around 28 per cent of the self-employed sector has no superannuation ...

Perennial adds to smaller companies division

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
Perennial Value Management has appointed Andrew Smith to senior analyst of the firm's smaller companies division. Smith previously worked at small cap researcher, Linwar Securities, as head of research and prior to that, worked at Tyndall within its ...

Buck stops with trustees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Even though trustees of retail and not-for-profit super funds are subject to the same laws, they have evolved different ways of executing their roles, said Senator Nick Sherry minister for superannuation and corporate law. The operational differences ...

Emissions trading won't fix climate change: expert

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
... regarding how it is expected to increase coal-generated electricity prices by around 17 per cent. But this could create an incentive for carbon neutral electricity to compete head to head at a considerable price discount, the theory being that traditional ...

AMP roadmap to growth

AMP's newly-appointed chief executive Craig Dunn has outlined the group's five-pronged growth plan ahead of the predicted doubling of the superannuation industry's size within the next 10 years. Speaking at the group's Annual General Meeting (AGM) today ...

Give advice a tax break

... deduction for fee for service advice - whether paid out of a member's super account or not - would offer advisers the incentive to move away from commissions selling and towards offering impartial advice," said ISN's executive manager, David Whiteley. ...

Agriculture drives biofuel investing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
As agriculture continues to outperform, the push for sustainable biofuels will only increase investor appetite for investment opportunities in the sector. According to the Commonwealth Bank, "Australia's listed agribusiness sector has significantly ...