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Fighting inflation to make housing affordability worse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... Oliver said global and Australian share market turmoil could add the risk that history might repeat itself if investors switch money from shares to housing and cause a house price boom. "Australian average house prices rose nearly 50 per cent between ...

Fiducian FP attracts HNW clients

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Fiducian financial planners have refined their skills and are attracting more high net worth investors than ever before. Indy Singh, managing director at Fiducian, said the company previously focused on delivering simple effective financial advice but ...

Even Macquarie has to pay for funding

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Macquarie Group chief financial officer Greg Ward reported yesterday that the group has been paying between 15 and 30 basis points more for funding since the credit market liquidity crisis hit in July. The group has had a strong flow of retail deposits ...

ASSET switches to Integrity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
ASSET Super has granted a $75 million Australian equities mandate to Integrity Investment Management, a deal that ends the super fund's four-year relationship with Concord Capital. "Concord weren't providing the performance the fund required. Investments ...

Interest rates - when economics meets politics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... academic, a Reuters survey of market economists last week found that 21 out of 24 believe the Reserve will flick the rates switch. At least the good news is that if rates do go up then it will be easy for the Reserve to lower them quickly when conditions ...

JPMorgan Chase launches IPO STRATAS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
JPMorgan Chase has developed IPO Target Redemption Strategic Asset Securities (IPO STRATAS), a structured product based on an index that returned seven times more than the S&P 500 in the past five years. IPO STRATAS was created with Citibank and is ...

US titans fall, Australia will rise

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
How the mighty have fallen. From Merrill Lynch to JPMorgan Chase, the world's investment banking stalwarts have all shed blood from the US sub-prime scalping - but Australian fund managers are weathering the storm. Last week, Merrill Lynch reported ...

NAB FP switches to fee for advice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
After more than four years of providing financial planning using both the commission and fee-for-advice payment models, NAB Financial Planning's 400-strong network will only charge fee-for-advice only to new clients starting this year. "We feel the ...

Industry funds biggest losers from switching

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
Industry super funds reaped the least switching gains at the end of last year, as they reported for the first time a negative net share of superannuation switching behaviour, a new survey by Roy Morgan shows. During the six months leading up to September ...

Scottish Equitable puts lid on withdrawals

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008