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Love thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
Chinese New Year. Valentine's Day. They fell on the same day this year. The Chinese all around the world and lovers of all nationalities were torn about which day to celebrate. Easy for the Chinese -- the celebration of the "Year of the Tiger" takes ...

Cloud computing still a foggy idea

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
Banks and other financial services companies are among the early adopters of cloud computing but when it comes to the nitty-gritty of it, many are stuck in a haze, new research shows. In a survey of more than 300 companies covering key business sectors ...

CFS promotes Fin Wisdom GM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
Tim Browne leaves his role as general manager Financial Wisdom to take a role as head of advice delivery at Colonial First State's new Advice Business Leadership team. John Carnevale, former head of distribution services at Colonial First State, has ...

Firm hails the next emerging market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
Looking for the next investment trend? Eastern Europe could be the answer, with one asset manager's flagship fund returning more than 20 per cent annualised since inception. Michael Hanson-Lawson, chief executive at East Capital Asia, said while a long-term ...

Singapore pushes for online economy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
There is a new threat to Australia's aspirations to become Asia's financial hub and it is "virtual", after Singapore announced this month that it plans to spend big on IT to build an "online economy". IT research firm Ovum has released a fresh report ...

Halmarick joins CFS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... experience make him a very valuable addition to our team." In his role as head of investment markets research, Halmarick succeeds Hans Kunnen, who retired in December 2008 after a 35-year career. Halmarick will commence with Colonial First State Global ...

ING offloads Taiwan life insurance for $850m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... its growth ambitions in Asia and will continue to assess opportunities that will allow us to accelerate that growth," said Hans van der Noordaa, ING's executive board member responsible for Asia Pacific Insurance. "In addition to our five per cent shareholding ...

Emissions trading won't fix climate change: expert

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
... carbon producers particularly energy producers, argues the German MP who pioneered their feed-in tariff electricity system. Hans -Josef Fell, a leading Greens MP from the German parliament told Financial Standard that if the goal is fighting climate ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... price index fell 99 points to 5,573 on a volume of 12,849 contracts. Colonial First State head of investment markets research Hans Kunnen said the gains in the market yesterday had given investors - who don't think there will be a recovery from the credit ...

US titans fall, Australia will rise

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... credit imbalances gathering momentum in the last few years. Colonial First State's (CFS) head of investment markets research, Hans Kunnen, said that the fund manager did not suffer any major losses from the sub-prime contagion when it first exploded ...