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Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... the apparent hero Dr Greenspan. The main problem, according to a just-released book titled The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R Morris, is that while central banks try to moderate money supply ...

Property before super: IPSOS

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... works and the particular features of their own fund. There is a need to regulate for clear consumer documentation that is easy to understand while still connecting consumers," she said. IPSOS' survey was based on a series of in-depth group and individual ...

Double digit days are over

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... some CPI plus target - CPI plus three for diversified, CPI plus two for balanced funds. Over the past these have been very easy to achieve," he said. But in the wake of a global economic slowdown, Sainsbury warns that double digit returns are probably ...

Good billing helps SMSF admin

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... of their resources. "The administration of a SMSF is compliance driven but it's also very process driven and it's not as easy as it sounds," he said. "Unlike other things, it's black and white and there's a certain way to do things and they're so many ...

Aviva breaks industry fund hurdle

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... them good value," he said. In short, Barker found that while a corporate fund's bells and whistles are great, members want easy-to-understand perks. "Feedback from advisers, employers and members said the complexity of the product was to the detriment ...

Asian REITs continue to sizzle

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... nabCapital-sponsored seminar yesterday that the emerging Asian real estate investment trust (REIT) market provides a comparatively easy and cost-effective means of accessing these markets. "In certain Asian markets such as Hong Kong and Singapore, REITs ...

Our rates a global sideshow

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
... won't slow down world capital flows but rather increase them, said McKinsey in its latest newsletter. "Amid the turmoil, it's easy to forget that long-term structural change in the world's capital markets will probably prove more important than short-term ...

Fed Govt creates financial services task force

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... strategy. Consumer groups and the financial services industry will review all prospective ideas to guarantee documents are easy to read and understand. "Improving access to financial advice is of significant importance to both consumers and the economy. ...

Interest rates - when economics meets politics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... 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 change, which is a weapon the US Fed surrendered long ago.

ITG launches Triton Asia Pacific

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... your disposal to trade which they did not have before," Michael Corcoran, sales director at ITG, said. "Triton creates an easy-to-use, single platform not only for finding liquidity and executing trades efficiently, but also for analysing and managing ...