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BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
What's the final deal going to be? Will they, won't they? Sorry Virginia, not talking about the grand theatrics that is the US debt ceiling negotiations this time. Today, I refer these questions to our very own Reserve Bank of the Advance Australia ...

Fundamental indexing isn't

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... using company metrics that overweight on smaller companies and this makes it a de facto active strategy. "If you really strip it down they're really taking a tilt towards small companies," he said. "They're active strategies. Anything that is not the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... the March quarter to $10.447 billion, driven by a big drop in exports. Economists say the widening of the trade gap will strip 2.4 percentage points from economic growth for the quarter, the biggest single-quarter hit to growth from trade in the 52-year ...

GDP down no reason to frown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
It's all over the news, the Statistician will soon confirm that the Australian economy stumbled in the first quarter of 2011. All eyes would be glued to monitors everywhere when the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report on the National Accounts ...

Signature scam adviser banned for life: ASIC

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
A financial adviser who allegedly used a scanned copy of his 72-year-old client's signature to misappropriate $1.5 million in shares is facing a life ban from ASIC and court action. Todd Michael King, of Perth, WA, allegedly used a scanned signature ...

FTSE launches ESG investment product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... practices of over 2,300 public companies worldwide. The ratings service equips institutional investors with a scoring model to strip down a company's ESG practices by environmental management, climate change, human and labour rights, supply chain labour ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
The Australian dollar was almost a US cent lower at noon, after minutes from the central bank's April board meeting confirmed that it was in no hurry to raise rates. At 1200 (AEST) on Tuesday, the local unit was trading at 104.63 US cents, down from ...

GFC hangover hits Perpetual profit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
A goodwill write-down from a pre-GFC purchase helped drag down wealth manager Perpetual's first-half profits by 29 per cent year-on-year to $35 million for the six months to December. The $10.6 million goodwill write-down comes from their 2008 purchase ...

Movers and shakers of 2010

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
Regulatory reforms, politics, and high profile M&A activity dominated the financial services landscape this year - Financial Standard looks back at the stories that shook up the industry this year. It was an extraordinary year in Australian politics. ...

Fin services jobs on the rise

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... Right Management, attributed some of the success to the financial industry taking on a leaner approach as it continues to strip down its cost structures. "To some extent, there's a reluctance by some people to take their chances in a sector that was ...