Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 8831 - 8840 of 11314 results for "research"

Time to grow: Securitor

MICHELLE BALTAZAR IS A MEDIA GUEST OF THIS YEAR'S SECURITOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE.  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... continuing on with Securitor's "Quality Advice" training programs. He added that Securitor is also looking to broaden its research capability, and more importantly, have factored in a scenario where traditional sources of income such as volume-based ...

Lodestar hires two senior analysts

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
Lodestar Capital Partners has appointed Michael Kelly and Gary Armor as two senior team members of its equities research team. Kelly joins Lodestar from Portfolio Partners where he was a founding partner and helped manage several equity portfolios. ...

The retaking of Dow 11000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... that Greece's problems are not yet over or China is still manipulating its currency or the National Bureau of Economic Research Business Cycle Dating Committee has not yet certified that the recession is over. Heck, Bloomberg even quoted Jack Ablin ...

More super funds to introduce performance pay: survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... there are more fundamental changes ahead in the way super fund executives and staff get paid as the industry grows, new research shows. Researcher McGuirk Management Consultants, in alliance with industry body Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL) ...

Investors get $250m compensation for crook advice

FSA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... services" where the additional costs were not justified for a particular customer. Some advisers were also found to disregard research, and not investigate a customer's existing pension arrangements. The FSA's findings have prompted firms to deliver ...

Business cycle dating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... with this question after the New York Times carried a story about the 8 April meeting by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee - the official arbiter of the peaks and troughs of the US economic cycle - that concluded ...

Can fee-for-service insurance advice work?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
... because the total cost of insurance, a long-term finance decision, is too expensive to shoulder upfront. In a super fund research, consumers already baulk at paying more than $500 upfront for one-off financial advice let alone the couple of thousand ...

Former GSJBW partner starts hedge fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
... to generate positive risk adjusted returns," said the firm in a statement. "Our belief is that a combination of solid research and an understanding of the persistent inefficiencies found in the Australian equities market will achieve this goal."

Debt disclosure to revive agribusiness

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Almost a year on to the day Timbercorp fell, the future of the agribusiness industry remains on shaky ground - but proposed measures demanding agribusiness operators to open their books to the public, including how much debt they owe, could renew investor ...

Government annuities proposal draws industry fire

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... experts argue private sector annuities and longevity risk products offer better alternatives. IFSA, which commissioned research from Towers Watson on the effects of compulsory government annuity products (hinted in the interim report of the Henry Review) ...