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Health Super gives aid to fire victims

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... While most of its employees regularly donate blood, the fund had organised an extra staff blood donation drive at short notice to get more supplies to victims. "People with burns lose a lot of fluid, and the blood transfusions are crucial to their survival," ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Yes we can! And again, Yes we can! In trying to make this slogan come true, US President Barack Obama has taken the concept of moral hazard from Wall Street to Main Street. Just one day after he signed his autograph on a piece of paper turning the US$787 ...

No meat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
'All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say Yo Goober! Where's the meat? I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.' Homer Simpson. Equity investors who came to US Treasury ...

Merry Christmas retailers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
Well there we have it ladies and gentlemen. Yesterday's Australian retail sales figures have swung the pendulum in favour of Kevin 07 and his fiscal stimulus package. The Federal Opposition has been making noises ever since the A$42 billion was first ...

Read between the headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... workers. It is only when investors are confident that they resume putting their money back into the financial markets. Notice how there was not a single piece of bad news about Obama's inauguration? Even his slip up when taking the oath of office was ...

North awarded 'very strong' S&P rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
AXA Australia's highly popular structured product, North, received a 'very strong' rating from Standard & Poor's. Launched in December 2007, AXA North provides 50 different investment options with the guarantee. The product was later enhanced to include ...

Investors gain precious metal alternative

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... Platinum, Palladium and PM Basket. Hector McNeil ETF Securities head of sales and marketing, said financial planners would not notice any differences between trading an ETCs and exchange traded funds (ETFs). He said, similar to exchange traded funds ...

PDS notices to go online: ASIC

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... changes are a result of a change to section 1015D of the Corporations Act 2001, and affects the use of Form FS88 PDS in-use notice, Form FS89 Notice of change to fees and charges in a PDS and Form FS90 Notice that a product in a PDS has ceased to be ...

RaboPlus cuts platform fees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
RaboPlus is setting the tone for other platform providers by dumping its 75 basis point entry fee on all managed funds until the end of the year to encourage retail investors back into the markets. The firm's online savings and investment platform provides ...

UK fund seeks global eq manager

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... pension fund has put out a tender for one or more manages to manage the $290 million mandate. Although the fund has put up a notice for an active global equity mandate, it also not averse to splitting it into a diversified growth or multi asset mandate. ...