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BNP Paribas hires Mallett for fixed income shop

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... portfolio manager, Doyle Mallett, to develop its Australian fixed income team in Sydney. Mallett worked as head of fixed interest and portfolio manager at Austock Asset Management between for three years to 2009. Prior to that role, he was portfolio ...

To spend or not to spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
Financial markets have comeback to reality after being distracted by the renminbi sideshow courtesy of the Peoples Bank of China. They've woken up to the reality that their dream of a floating, dearer yuan is just that a dream. Oh yes, the PBOC tried ...

Telstra Super appoints Leggo as chairman

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
One of Australia's largest corporate super funds, Telstra Super, has appointed former AvSuper chairman David Leggo as its new independent chairman. Leggo starts on 1 July and has been appointed for a term of three years. The former long-serving chair ...

The art of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... attention. The bottomline is that China will revalue, unpeg or float its currency only if and only when it is in its own best interest to do so. Plain. Simple. "To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists ...

Securitor tags AFG for mortgages

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... services to Magnitude and Securitor advisers. "Advisers should be identifying that, with increasing house prices and interest rates, clients who are at an earlier stage in their life cycle, can benefit from the value of advice on how to structure and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
Australian stocks were up slightly at noon, as investors sat on the sidelines in morning trade. At 1200 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 15.6 points, or 0.34 per cent, at 4542 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up ...

China proves resilience

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
European markets may have come to a grinding halt due to sovereign debt fears in the region but the latest round of earnings in China show yet again the compelling diversification properties of Asian investments in a typical investor portfolio. Martha ...

Retirees brush off volatility to hold equities long term

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
Retirees might want less risk in their investment portfolios, but many tend to brush away recent market fluctuations to maintain a strong bias towards equities, new figures show. When asked whether market fluctuations have meant that retirees prefer ...

Going nowhere fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... for instance: Japan revving up its quantitative easing versus the Bank of Canada and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's interest rate hikes; speculation of a slowdown in China and the Chinese property market is in a bubble versus not in a bubble; emerging ...

SMSF education gains traction

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
More than 700 new members have joined SMSF online resource centre, www.thesmsfreview.com.au in its first three weeks of launching. Paragem Dealer Services introduced the website to the financial planning community in late May. Ian Knox, managing director ...