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Doing good pays off for Christian Super

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... began applying ethical investment standards to all of its funds in 2006. Certain "sin stocks" in areas such as stem sell research are completely excluded from the fund, and others in areas such as alcohol are limited, while stocks with good environmental ...

Tower wins Virgin Money mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... will be delivering "a straight-talking" product. "I see a lot of opportunity for Virgin Money in this sector given that research shows 95 per cent of families in Australia don't have adequate insurance cover. Ensuring life insurance is accessible will ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... which saved ''a lot'' declined from 11.5 per cent in June to 8.7 per cent in September..." Not bad enough? AAP quoted Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute, Edda Claus warning that, "two worrying developments were appearing". "The share of respondents ...

Ausbil Dexia signs ESG deal with CAER

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
Ausbil Dexia has signed up for environmental, social and governance (ESG) research services from Canberra-based CAER. The employee-owned, boutique fund manager's ESG product, the Dexia Sustainable Global Equity Fund (DSEF), was established back in 2004 ...

Investors shun social media, for now

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Nearly 75 per cent of institutional investors and stockbroking analysts snub social media for investment research - but a minority group visits websites such as YouTube to analyse investors' attitude to brands and stocks they follow, new research shows. ...

AMP buys Sydney office for Sunsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... said. Direct property has become a hunting ground for savvy institutional investors since the sector's slump last year. Research from the Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA) released in May 2009 found that nearly half of 100 direct ...

S&P and ASX launch Aussie "fear index"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Standard & Poor's and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) have launched an Australian version of the "VIX" volatility index, colloquially referred to as the gauge of fear on Wall Street. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX index will measure the expected volatility ...

Investor confidence shaken, and stirred

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... young families, blue collar workers, single males and single females and empty nesters. This is the second stage of the research findings, with the first results coming to head in April this year. At that time regression analysis techniques were used ...

One in five ignore super accounts

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Nearly 20 per cent of Australians have no idea how many super funds they currently have, new research from REST Super shows. A new online snap poll of more than 600 REST Superannuation members has found that an alarming one in five have no clue how ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... probably a bit cautious." On Wall Street overnight, stocks surged to a four-month high after the National Bureau of Economic Research confirmed the world's biggest economy emerged from recession in June last year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average index ...