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Health Super reviews mandate line-up

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... this time around the fund will also be paying extra attention to companies' risk profiles, their investment teams, and how "true to form" they are to their investment philosophies. "Who are their people, how much money do they have, are they true to ...

Up yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... Citigroup is reportedly following similar moves by Morgan Stanley and UBS. I take my hat off to these institutions. They are the true Masters of the Universe. Contrast this with the predicament of the British Airways' employees - which the vast majority ...

Hedge funds lag index returns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... funds tend to lag on the upside. He said the argument leveled at the hedge fund industry that many of the funds haven't been 'true to label' has been over played. "Hedge funds are down 11 per cent and the S&P 500 is down 35 per cent. Yes, the whole world ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... growing national budget deficits. There will be no future if the present isn't fixed. And JM Keynes words will again ring true, ' in the long run we're all dead'.

NAB/Aviva deal fuels insurance shake-up

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... to reveal if the Navigator or Aviva brand will continue to be used. Solomon pointed out that it will be a while before the true effects of the deal will unfold. "We'll have to wait and see... it usually takes a fair while to play out, up to three to ...

Five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... interest rates would be high enough that investors would switch out of their riskier stock market holdings. The converse is true when interest rates are falling. And right now, interest rates are down on the floor in the US, the UK and Japan and at multi-decade ...

Insurance broker caught for fraud

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... written. Ryan also pleaded guilty to engaging in dishonest conduct in relation to a financial product when he misrepresented the true and correct premiums required to obtain Carriers and Couriers insurance to retail insurance broker TCIS Insurance Brokers. ...

Darling buds of May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... 12 per cent over the month with crude oil soaring by 27.3 per cent in May for a near 46 per cent jump so far this year. If true that economies are still contracting, who are buying all these oil? Perhaps it is the Federal Reserve and other central banks ...

LUCRF goes live with Bluedoor

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... browser-based web solution is the perfect match for the operational environment we now face and it allows us to utilise a true end-to-end platform," he said. Ian Mathieson, chief executive for DST Global Solutions Australia and New Zealand said the firm ...

Acronyms pull down USD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... the safety of the mighty dollar was among the rationales given to explain the US currency's sharp depreciation last night. True perhaps, but only in part. The overriding reason is the US Federal Reserve's flooding of the system with billions upon billions ...