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Investors want to unpack asset-backed transactions

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
The securitisation industry needs to increase the level of transparency in its investor reporting to overcome scepticism about securitised products, the Reserve Bank has warned. RBA assistant governor Guy Debelle told the annual conference of the Australian ...

Oil prices a two-way street

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... will affect their long term bond holdings and other investments. For example, if high oil prices drive up inflation and interest rates then the value of their bond portfolios will fall, albeit not by as much their oil income is likely to grow. Indicating ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... financial stocks rallied on optimism over a proposed rescue for struggling homeowners and on heightened expectations for more interest-rate cuts. Tech stocks were left behind, however, after Dell Inc fell by its most in seven years after a disappointing ...

Reinventing financial planning

MICHAEL HOBBS, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... commissions-based fees are phased out, the industry will find it hard convincing people that there are no conflicts of interest. "The key issue here is the worth of advice offered by financial planners. If the industry persists with the proposition that ...

The golden age of SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
The post retirement sector is expected to grow at 27 per cent in the next five years, with the self managed super funds (SMSF) sector set to grow at nearly twice that rate, according to Andrew Gale, partner at Trowbridge Deloitte. Speaking at the Financial ...

Planners need to shape up: Corbett

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... financial planning industry, Corbett said, involved planner proficiency levels and elimination of planner conflicts of interest. He said the level of proficiency and education financial planners need to provide advice was not high enough. "There are ...

US Fed hints rates holiday may be over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... favoured institutions in a preferred segment, is warning they won't keep protecting them forever. "To be sure, lowering interest rates to keep the economy on an even keel when adverse financial market developments occur will reduce the penalty incurred ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... blue chips jumped 4.1 per cent in a broad rally after comments by a top Federal Reserve official raised hopes for a US interest rate cut in December, leading rate-sensitive local property developers to outperform. The Hang Seng Index closed up 1,111.30 ...

Fix your interest

Suncorp has launched an online savings account that allows account holders to name how much interest they want to earn on their money. The new product, called eOptions, will allow everyday savers to lock in higher interest earnings on their cash. For ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
... banks. US financial stocks rose after Federal Reserve Bank Vice-Chairman Donald Kohn reinforced expectations of another US interest rate cut next month. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 100.8 points higher, or 1.58 per cent, at 6470.9 ...