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Northern Trust names new Australia head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... executives in the Asia Pacific region including Friedrich Burian to head of risk management in Singapore, Martin Joyce to human resources director and Kathy Dugan to head of asset servicing product development. Meanwhile, Jackie Mak was appointed client ...

Further regulation not needed: Nelson

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... with market regulation and I think there is a strong argument for enforcing the laws that already exist. "In any area of human economic activity there will always be some behaviour which is unacceptable or unexpected, but we don't want to be instinctively ...

China response has big trade implications

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... that tried to explain the same contradiction of why the US needed a strong and positive relationship with China despite any human rights concerns: "Free trade is essential to human rights. It makes everyone play by the same global rules, strengthen the ...

FTSE war on terror

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
Global index firm FTSE Group has chosen to wage its own battle against terrorism by launching a new terror-free index. FTSE has teamed up with terror-free investment screening house Conflict Securities Advisory Group to launch the FTSE CSAG Terror-Free ...

JANA names new chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
... senior consultant in JANA Investment Advisers (JANA) international equities research team and has held senior roles at Mercer Human Resource Consulting. Michael Mulcahy replaces Patrick as head of international equities research after joining the firm ...

Investing without feeling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... investment officer Mark Dutton highlighted the US experience that shows why investor returns are chronically influenced by human emotions. Dutton said A US report analysed the returns of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index compared to the experience of US ...

EMs too fast, too furious for sub-prime

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... is also very good," he said. But for the ethical or sustainable investor, emerging markets remain a hard gate to open as human rights issues and un-democratic political governance models still present stumbling blocks. EMs such as China and India have ...

Fear is the poison apple

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... profit - from the current volatility should harness their fears and approach present markets with a rational demeanor. "The human mind is particularly poorly suited for the financial markets. The biggest risk you're going to face is probably not going ...

Kofoed leaves QSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... services background. Importantly, the person must be able to lead change across the fund," said Peter Fletcher, general manager human resources, QSuper.

BRIC sector splits SRI managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... said their firm generally avoided investing in countries including Russia and China. However, it was hard to use possible human rights abuses, a core tenet of SRI investing, as a reason not to look at BRIC markets. "The world's largest economy, the United ...