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Cutting SG a disaster: Keating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... variable SG plan was re-awakened last week when banks refused to pass on the cuts in official interest rate cuts despite research showing their funding costs have decreased in recent months, leading to bank's increasing their profitability following ...

HFA regains Lonsec rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... HFA Asset Management managing director. "This stability and consistency is a direct result of our ability to identify research and invest with the best absolute return managers in the world."

DB super deficit rises to $25 bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... companies, not unlisted firms or the public sector. With that in mind, Andrew Keevers, Rainmaker Group associate director of research, said while listed company defined benefit liabilities may have risen, the real issue could be public sector defined ...

China caps executive pay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) was of no exception," Tang Min, deputy secretary general of the China Development Research Foundation told the ChinaView news service. The salary restrictions are an important development because SOEs have become all ...

Charged for no AFSL

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... investments. During the relevant period Button was a director of Button Building Consultants Pty Ltd (now known as Prime Research & Marketing Pty Ltd); Shepherd was the sole director and officer of Pinnacle Enterprises International Pty Ltd; and Sneddon ...

More than ratings: S&P

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
Standard & Poor's is adding more staff and developing extra research services to boost the global firepower of the ratings agency Down Under. Leanne Milton, Standard & Poor's head of research, said the firm's aim is to make their ratings and research ...

UK consumers embrace online comparison tools

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
New research on UK consumers shows they are rapidly embracing online finance price comparisons, with big implications for how firms market their products. According to the Datamonitor research, online price comparison websites are now the most trusted ...

Local S&P veteran heads to global stage

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... financial services firms. They have joined with a remit to integrate the currently separate European and Australian fund research businesses, and beyond that, expand into new markets such as Asia and North America in order to create a global business ...

Outsourcing the next boom market

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... next 12 months - but many are still looking within Australia rather than overseas for outsourcing opportunities, new research show. According to a report by Convergys Corporation, around 28 per cent of the 60 surveyed Australian businesses said outsourcing ...

Inalytics to compare transition managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
Research consultancy group Inalytics is set to build a giant database of transition events that will help super funds compare transition managers based on fees - a comparison tool that has caught the attention of major asset consultants. Inalytics scored ...