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Sustainability grows in EMs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... sector boast over $428 billion - or nearly 10 per cent of total investments - in sustainable ventures. According to new research conducted by Mercer and commissioned by the IFC, fund managers are increasing their interest in environmental, social and ...

AMPFP restructures research team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
AMP Financial Planning has recruited three new members to its products research team - including the replacement to former research manager Jerome Bodisco - and is in talks with five research houses as part of a fundamental review of its products research ...

FTSE launches Asian sector indices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... increasingly sophisticated way via pan-regional sector plays." Jamie Perrett, FTSE Group Asia Pacific head of quantitative research, said the firm is seeing evidence of increased investor appetite for sectorial plays, amid volatile regional markets.

Countdown to CIMA scholarships: IMCA

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... Zenith Partners who was awarded the Blackrock Scholarship last year. Blackrock Investment Management sponsors the retail research scholarship and Tyndall Investment Management sponsor two institutional scholarships that are available to Fund Executives ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... came despite more bleak US consumer confidence and housing data. Consumer confidence was flat in March, according to research group The Conference Board, while home prices in the 20 largest cities fell by a record 19 per cent in January from a year ago. ...

Tech unclogs insurance bottlenecks

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... cumbersome underwriting process. Joining the fray this year is Asteron, which spent millions of dollars and ten months on research and development on its electronic insurance application, Lifeguard EQ. "[Electronic applications] used to be a novelty ...

AVG targets hacker behaviour

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... Australia's financial services: identity theft. According to the 2008 Identity Fraud Survey Report of Javelin Strategy & Research, identity theft is now the number one internet-based crime and claims almost 10 million online and offline victims at a ...

Future still belongs to super

... still on track to grow into a multi-trillion dollar savings pool, just at a slower rate than previously estimated. Key research groups have released projections for the superannuation market that show while the GFC has dented the super industry's growth ...

WW adds new portfolio advisory role

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... structure along global lines in October last year resulting in Hugh Dougherty appointed Australian regional manager of research. Craig Baker was appointed global head of manager research and global head of hedge fund research. Martin Knowles stepped ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... Exchange, the June share price index contract was trading up 16 points at 3,620 on volume of 11,899 contracts. IG Markets research analyst Ben Potter said Australian shares had gained ground by noon, defying a negative lead from US stocks. "Overnight ...