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Thrift is the new cool: K2

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
From high-speed railway to high-tech alarms, fund manager K2 Asset Management banks on stocks that will flourish in the face of a global recession. Nick Griffin, the group's head of international strategy, said that investors should tap into mega-trends ...

Adviser portfolios add commodities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
Commodities is the new asset class in the Securitor Select Blend Portfolios. Pat Farrell, head of BT Investment Solutions and a speaker at last week's Securitor conference in Darwin, said commodities were included as an asset class of its own in the ...

US employees flee pension plans

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
Up to 60 per cent of US companies are seeing their employees postpone retirement plans and reduce pension plan participation. Dissaffected employees are also increasing hardship withdrawals, according to a new Towers Perrin survey. US employees are ...

New chair for ISPT

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
ISPT has appointed James Cain as an independent board appointed director and chair. The three year term, commencing 30 April 2009, follows the resignation of Carol Schwartz late last year. Cain has significance industry experience, gained operated M21 ...

Stakes rising fast at anti-adviser Parlie inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
The Parliamentary Inquiry into financial advice is quickly shaping up into the high stakes game it was always expected to become as of the 19 submissions received so far not one has anything positive to say about how advice operates in Australia or ...

Green sprouts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
Here we go, here we go, here we go. It is that time of the month again when Australia's soothsayers sing a familiar refrain, 'we are doomed.' I of course refer to the Australian Labour Force Report which will be released by the Australian Bureau of ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
I'll keep the change, thank you. With these words, the National Australia Bank hammered home the point of one of the G20 protesters' slogans, 'Bankers, rhyme with ?' Yesterday's decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to reduce the official ...

GFC Problem solved

Game over. Problem solved! With a stroke of a pen and an extra US$1,000,000,000,000 the leaders of the G20 have ended the global financial crisis. Not so fast. The rally that started in the Asia Pacific time zone extended to Wall Street overnight, with ...

FPSA tenders for managed accounts

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
Netwealth-owned FPSA, which advises on $1.4 billion in funds, is getting into the managed accounts game and is putting out a tender for a MA provider. Financial Planning Services Australia, which has approximately $1.4 billion in funds under advice ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
True to script, history has not failed us. Like in most episodes following widespread market upheavals, increased regulation makes a comeback for an encore. Taking advantage of the global disgust at the rapid erosion of wealth caused by 'inventive' ...