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Once more from the top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... growth at a fairly disappointing rate going forward". Taper on...hold. Back home, you can't call yourself a fair dinkum Aussie if you missed Kevin's sweet revenge. He's finally got the knife to stick and kicked Julia's behind off not only from the prime ...

Will Australia escape an EM bond crisis?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... inflation. So low-level inflation should still give the RBA scope to cut rates," he said. "Now that may lead to a weaker Aussie down the line, but as far as Australian bonds are concerned, the current environment remains quite supportive," Evans said ...

Asian LGBT advice firm headhunts Aussie planners

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
Hong Kong-based Financial Partners, the advisory firm behind Asia's first LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) wealth management business, is actively recruiting Australian financial planners to the specialist division. Financial Partners has ...

ASIC bans former CEO for 'misleading activities'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) found that Priestley had misled a client, when he guaranteed that the 'Aussie Rob Lifestyle Trader' software was not based on moving averages, when in fact he did not know how the software worked. ...

Aussie shares weaken ahead of long weekend

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
Australian shares are weaker as investors worry about sluggish US economic news ahead of the Queen's Birthday long weekend. CommSec market analyst Steven Daghlian says Australian traders are reluctant to buy stocks ahead of the Friday night release ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... stocks. "Our market's probably very heavily weighted to overseas investors and the fact they think there's a trend the Aussie dollar is cheaper," he told AAP. "They'll take their money out of our market now and park it in the currency which is going ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... dollar dropped to a low of US$0.9511 overnight - the lowest since October 2011. Now if we could scare more people out of the Aussie, it should put emerging talks of an Australian recession - after the disappointing 0.6% GDP growth in the first quarter ...

Downswing in bond yields clear path for Absolute Return Fixed Income

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... currencies in economies exposed to commodity prices such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada," he explained. "This year the Aussie dollar has fallen significantly so we've changed moved that exposure to the Swedish krona instead." Where institutions ...

Tides to turn for Platinum: Neilson

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... cents to the US dollar), we started dumping our position, and by the time it got into the late nineties, we had very little Aussie dollars." "When the Aussie suddenly goes up another 7%, that does damage your performance, because that's straight off ...

Aussie equity investors urged to buy overseas

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... there are different dynamics and industries available elsewhere in the world. "If there is any further weakening in the Aussie dollar or demand for resources drops then returns are going to be much more subdued for Australian share investors," he added. ...