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SG survives mining tax deal

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... dead, to be replaced by the Minerals Resource Rent Tax that sees the headline tax rate cut by a quarter to 30 per cent, a huge rise in the uplift rate to bond rate plus 7 percentage points, the abandonment of the government co-investment rebate concept ...

Drunk futures broker banned

FSA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... banned from the local financial services industry for five years and fined $126,000 for manipulating the market by trading huge volumes of oil contracts after a weekend bender. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) fined and banned Steven Noel Perkins ...

APRA dictates investment option labels

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... person's working life. "Our asset consultant (JANA) runs models in this regard, converting the time to 20 years won't be a huge issue," he said. He said the fund looks forward to consulting with APRA on the finer details of the labels. "It says how regularly ...

Super funds lead advice charge

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... focus on delivering transactional advice, rather than the planner's historical holistic financial plan. "This represents a huge challenge to traditional notions of holistic advice. "Transactional advice relates to a specific member need, such as the ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... KRudd... at Hooters. The US non-farm payrolls report showed that the economy added 431,000 jobs in May. Normally, such a "huge" number -- the largest monthly gain in 10 years -- would have sent Wall Street soaring. But these are not normal times and ...

IFM global infra assets outperform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... focused on ensuring its existing assets are growing. "We sit on 29 boards of infrastructure assets that we own so we've put a huge commitment into improving the assets," he added. This follows the manager buying the German regional transmission system ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... eurozone financial woes will unravel the fragile global economic recovery. Stocks opened lower as investors booked profits from huge gains on Thursday that had pushed the Dow up almost 300 points. Volume was thin as US markets will be closed on Monday ...

Australian dollar separates winners and losers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... currency hedges," he said. "All those monthly rebalancing types are going to be turning up at the end of the month with a huge amount of Australian dollars and they'll be selling at the worst possible price." He said the firm recommends clients rebalance ...

Freaked out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... the improvement in second derivatives saved the day. Remember them? When less negative economic indicators were considered huge improvements? So be very careful what you wish for.

Nein to naked shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... ultimate baptism of fire. Instead of stopgap measures, European governments have to bite the bullet and acknowledge that huge sacrifices have to be made. And at the end of the day, what doesn't kill the euro would make it stronger.