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GFC highlights five-year outperformers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
In 2004, Greece held the Olympic Games, Coldplay's Clocks was on top of the charts and, if you invested $1,000 in Perennial, Prime Value or Fidelity's Australian equities fund, that same capital would be worth over $1,700 today. Rainmaker Information ...

Job freezes to thaw: Watson Wyatt

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... turnaround in jobs, Watson Wyatt cautions that not all scaling back procedures, staff cuts and changes resulting from the GFC will be reversed. Despite 60 per cent of employers planning to turn around salary reductions, 20 per cent of employers are holding ...

Bravura wins business award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... executive and managing director Iain Dunstan said the award recognised the firm's capability of exporting its strategy despite the GFC. "We believe that in a time of negative economic growth, our ability to maintain our revenue and EBITDA, and continue ...

GFC drives insurance awareness: AXA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
A new survey found 7 per cent of Australians took out additional insurance since the financial crisis began and the number of those who felt they were "very well insured" halved. The AXA 2009 Protection Report found the number of respondents that said ...

Pres Obama proposes sweeping regulatory reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
To plug regulatory gaps that the Whitehouse believes precipitated the GFC, President Obama has proposed the biggest change to financial oversight since the New Deal. Central to the reforms are the creation of a Financial Oversight Council that will ...

Asset Super completes intl mandates review

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... a bid to "improve our investment performance". The $1.1 billion super fund planned the restructure late last year but the GFC delayed proceedings. The transition was started last month and has now been largely completed.

HNWs to buy Aus equities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... in March this year, as part of their bi-annual research into where HNWs put their money since September 2007 (just when the GFC was about to unfold). The research found that just like their institutional counterparts, HNWs are wading back into the equities ...

Slippery - watch your step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... the end of May, a barrel of oil fetched US$66.31 - where it was in October last year and more than 115 per cent above the GFC-low of US$30.81 in December 2008. Last night crude prices continued to barrel past US$70. No one would have picked this looking ...

AustralianSuper saves $4m per year

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... the costs when choosing whether to invest in a profit or not-for-profit fund, she said. "If there's one good thing from the GFC, it's that members are looking at their statements," said Rubin.

Fully sick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... structured products team mouth-watering salaries and bonuses. So they could once again engage in unfettered speculation of the pre-GFC kind. The reasoning goes that early repayment by the Big Ten exposes other less capitalised institutions that they ...