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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... executive Mike Wilkins addresses a Committee for the Economic Development of Australia function in Sydney. Roy Morgan Research releases its inaugural Investor Stress Measure, along with its fourth State of the Nation Report. Whitegoods group Kleenmaid ...

VicSuper seeds $150m low carb fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... has to be diversified and their emissions measured by an independent company. In this case, London-based environmental research group Trucost. For good measure, the universe of the portfolio is limited to the 1,700 stocks listed on the MSCI World ex-Australia ...

Frontier hires analyst

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... Trafford-Walker, said that "Dean will join Frontier's consulting team and be involved in both client work, and investment research across a number of sectors." Frontier is one of Australia's largest institutional asset consulting firms, with $90 billion ...

CFS GAM releases second PRI report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... all internally managed assets. However it also outlined a number of key challenges including a lack of effective ESG research across the industry - from many listed companies, fellow signatories, asset consultants and investment managers. Addressing ...

Regnan to appoint new ESG research manager

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Regnan is looking for a new ESG research manager after Nathan Fabian takes a new role at the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand (IGCC). "We are sad to see Nathan move on but our loss is the IGCC's gain. Climate change is a major ...

Conservative strategies pay for ITC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... investment schemes (MIS), not an MIS company that uses forestry," he said. Shane Kelly, managing director at agribusiness research specialist Adviser Edge described Timbercorp and Greath Southern as more like marketing companies selling agribusiness ...

Insurance shopping goes online

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... perceived by the industry. "The propensity for people to buy online is not as high as people think, they do a lot of research online but they run into the issue that they need advice to get through. "We do have that limited [insurance] online but it's ...

Investors rush to oil ETCs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... assets" to hedge against potential future inflation as central banks increase the money supply. Nicholas Brooks, head of research and investment strategy at ETF Securities, said the surge of inflows into the long oil ETCs is unprecedented. "What is particularly ...

Russell revamps structure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... portfolios," he said. "Having global people working hand-in-hand with local colleagues means we'll be able to bring investment research, portfolio construction ideas and we'll start to share more global models which will find their way into local portfolios." ...

Pension age lift under fire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... with several experts and groups blasting the decision as unfair. Mike Rafferty from the University of Sydney's Workplace Research Centre, speaking on ABC Radio's World Today this week said the decision puts a wedge between wealthy people who can retire ...