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Annual renewals protect investors: ISN

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... failure to implement these arrangements will see the reforms 'seriously compromised', according to the Industry Super Network. ISN this month released a briefing paper on the importance of annual renewals or 'opting in' to prevent consumers from paying ...

Grand currency sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Looks like something's gone wonderfully wrong on Wall Street this month. This isn't the month to be jolly but with only two winks left before the seventh moon of 2010 is over, the US stock market is on course for its biggest September gain in 71 years. ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... that is not a typo. So what's the deal with gold then? Last time I looked, gold was flirting with the US$1,300 an ounce mark. Isn't gold good only during times of rising inflation and/or market turmoil? Runaway inflation in the late 1970s sent gold prices ...

BTIM adds PM to macro strategies

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... global currency. "We invest across different asset classes so that even if one particular strategy, say an equity strategy, isn't doing particularly well, chances are a bond or the currency strategy or maybe a commodities or GTA strategy are actually ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... since the start of the report in March 2001". But perhaps AAP just got caught up in the bad news of the moment. Just think. Isn't it also possible that given the bounty Australia is experiencing at present time - the drought has broken, commodity prices ...

Intra-fund advice takes off

ISN RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... year after ASIC published guidelines that clarified how super funds could deliver simple pieces of advice to their members, ISN said in a statement. Projections estimate that within 15 years, nearly one million Australians could be accessing simple financial ...

Snakes and ladders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... for potential losses on government bonds that are traded by the banks. Bonds held to maturity are excluded. That's cheating isn't it? But then we now find out that some of the 91 European banks understated their holdings of potentially risky sovereign ...

Long-term fixes for super inequity

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... average and generally lower participation rates have led to women now having to play catch up on their super. As a result, ISN have called for equality in superannuation through initiatives such as a $1,500 baby bonus superannuation contribution and ...

One report, two spins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... spin that lower income growth begets slower spending. I have no argument here, this is logically and intuitively true. But isn't it also true that higher spending begets higher sales begets higher profits begets higher employment begets higher aggregate ...