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Smart investors buy productive assets: Buffett

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
Celebrity investor Warren Buffett has reminded investors that they and their clients only make money if they buy assets that go up in value and avoid assets that don't. Writing an opinion piece for CNN Money magazine, Buffett, regarded as a leader among ...

ipac Securities-owned firm expands with two acquisitions

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
ipac securities-owned firm, TFS Financial Planning, has acquired two QLD financial planning firms in Atherton and Townsville as part of its QLD-expansion plans. Townsville firm, Financially Yours, has $86 million in funds under advice (FUA) while Magnitude ...

Benchmarked inflation protection doesn't stack up

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Managing inflation spikes through inflation-lined bonds (ILB) is fundamentally flawed, according to one institutional investment manager. "The traditional approach to managing inflation has been to buy an inflation benchmark, which is typically eight ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Australian stocks have opened slightly higher after mixed leads from offshore bourses kept investors wary ahead of the start of the local earnings season. Wall Street ended lower after US gross domestic product (GDP) data missed expectations - despite ...

Aus can deal with another GFC: Shorten

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten says Australia is not in the same boat as Europe and is better placed to deal with another worldwide recession. The World Bank yesterday declared the global economy had entered a "dangerous period", warning it could ...

The times, they're not a -changin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
It's a brand new year, yet why does it feel that times are not a-changin'? The problems of 2011 merely just got carried over into 2012. And if you believe those start of the year forecasts, the times could even be a-changin' for the worse - and the ...

Accountant charged with 37 offences

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
Victorian accountant and LGH Holdings director, Mark Ronald Letten, is facing 37 charges including 21 counts of operating unregistered managed investment schemes and deception charges involving $1.4 million. Appearing before the Melbourne Magistrates' ...

BT aligned advice boutique appoints new chief

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
Former Commonwealth Bank and Westpac executive Steve Watts has been appointed to the newly created chief executive role at Queensland advice boutique MQ Financial Services. MQ operates under the Magnitude Dealer Group license, which is part of BT Financial ...

Social media and the power of diversity

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
The potential impact of social media on business and the myth of 'having it all' was up for discussion at yesterday's Women in Super event with guest presenter, social media mogul and media personality, Mia Freedman. Speaking of the power of social ...

Dead calm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
This morning I woke up to Reuter's headline screaming, "Stocks slide on weak US growth data" and Bloomberg's "European Stocks Drop as Euro Area Borrowing Costs Rise; Commerzbank Slumps". What could have scared the equities markets off again this time ...