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Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... last year stock markets have tumbled and quantitative easing has affected gilt yields. This approach left schemes facing huge swings in their financial position on a day-by-day basis when, in practice, little had changed," said the group. CBI is proposing ...

CMC continues broking push

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... services area, targeting mid to large size financial institutions that want broking services from non-banks. "There's been a huge consolidation of the stockbroking industry and what's happening is that competitors are starting to find themselves dealing ...

Easing Libor pains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... from global markets. That cost rose sharply at the height of the global financial crisis. One of the reasons why despite huge and successive interest rate reductions by the US Federal Reserve at the onset proved impotent. The Libor rate remained high ...

One in six DB funds in trouble: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... their liabilities they have to make up the shortfall. Extra contributions being required during an economic downturn puts huge pressure of companies if their balance sheets are weak or they are having difficulties raising new capital whether that be ...

Bull market on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... should be considered a big positive. What would be more worrying would be if the economic stats jump from a big negative to a huge positive. At best, it would not be sustainable. At worst, the statistic becomes highly suspect. Deteriorations must slow ...

Instos search for cash alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... do the work around it and realised the potential operational risk." He said the firm's Cash Reserve fund hasn't received huge amounts of flows but the firm is working hard to develop relationships with prospective investors.

Instos hold the ace in direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... for the industry in the next 12 months. John Taylor, fund manager at Century Funds Management, stressed that this will be a huge hurdle, with fund managers currently undergoing refinancing will face stricter lender's terms and conditions. "You have a ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... cigarette smoking where 56 per cent of males still regularly smoke. Because supporting such a widespread habit requires a huge national infrastructure of tobacco growing and cigarette manufacturing, fears have grown that slowing economic conditions could ...

Bond funds top UK platform flows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... investors still have a lot parked in cash but there has been some flows into vanilla fixed income strategies. "There's still a huge amount of cash. I was looking at some figures this morning about what people are looking at and term deposits remain popular ...

Green sprouts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... will be lamenting Australia's dismal outlook. Seek and you shall find. The probability of finding bad news in the report is huge. If total employment comes in better than expectations, dig some more. Perhaps there was a large drop in full-time employment. ...