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

Search Results

Showing 901 - 910 of 1225 results for "Story"

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... intervene in debt markets to keep government borrowing costs lower, but turned down after ECB and German officials dismissed the story. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies closed down 0.48 per cent at 5,824.37 points, while in Paris the CAC 40 slid ...

The rally that no one's enjoyed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... is happening. Reminds me of one of Aesop's fables - The Crow and the Pitcher. Here's how aesops-fables.org.uk relates the story: "A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a Pitcher which had once been full of water; but when the Crow put its beak into ...

Income-seeking investors returning to secured credit

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
According to international investment manager Threadneedle Investments (Threadneedle), the positive performance of this asset class is causing some institutional investors to allocate between 5% and 50% to secured credit. Steven Fleming from the investment ...

Renewed appetite for Aussie stocks

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
According to BetaShares' Australian ETF Review, renewed interest in Australian equities products led to market cap growth of around 4% for the month of July and net new assets of $57 million. While yield remains popular with investors through high dividend ...

Zurich says no to online sales

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
Based on heartening satisfaction levels experienced by SME businesses when dealing with Zurich's traditional broking channels, the insurer has consciously decided to avoid the gravitation towards online sales taken by its competitors to boost investments. ...

Super to eclipse banks as primary lender: Cooper

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
Superannuation funds may have more money to lend than banks in under a decade, and could play a larger role in corporate lending than the corporate bond market, said Jeremy Cooper, architect of the government's Cooper Review. He expects banks, currently ...

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 ...

Australians lack genuine banking sector competition

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
Results of a recently released banking survey suggest that most Australians think the Big Four Banks don't genuinely compete. According to an Essential Report survey of over 1,000 respondents, 66% of Australians said consumers would get a better deal ...

Vision for the future

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... of the "group think" that has acted as a barrier to progress. He acknowledged the industry's contribution to the "ongoing story of Australia" but stressed that it cannot afford to be complacent. In investments, he encouraged more should go offshore. ...

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... guard. But this ones -- the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis and recession and potential dismemberment, the China hard landing story and slowing emerging market growth, the sluggishly growing US economy and heck, even its upcoming fall into a fiscal cliff ...