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Market set to fall

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to fall after a weak session on Wall Street due to disappointment with earnings reports from the likes of Apple and Microsoft. At 0700 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was down two points ...

Greece, China damage global hedge fund returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
Hedge fund returns have been hit by the Chinese market correction and by the Greek debt crisis, a global Eurekahedge report for June 2015 showed. After five months of consecutive gains, hedge funds posted their first monthly loss this year in June ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... the rage back then. But back then, it was Commodore - thought to be better than Windows 95 - and Sun Microsystems and America Online - before Google - that were all the rage and the ones preaching. Where are they now? Back then no one had any appetite ...

American IRAs not super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
A recent decision by the Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) ruled that an American Individual Retirement Account (IRA) is not a superannuation fund for Australian Tax Purposes. In the case of Baker and Commissioner of Taxation, tribunal ...

Fed lady sings (the same old song)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... employment grew by less than expected and the unemployment rate dropped by more than expected. This is jobs growth in America has not yet approached terminal velocity.A Oh yes, Virginia, we can pick and choose from among the details of the payrolls report ...

Fund managers take cover behind cash sandbags

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... ratcheted up their cash positions to levels not seen since before the financial crisis, the latest global survey from Bank of America Merrill Lynch shows. The July numbers show that cash levels have soared to an average of 5.5%, up from 4.9% in June ...

Glass-Steagall Act reintroduced to US Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
The Glass-Steagall Act that used to require US banking groups to separate their traditional activities from their investment management activities has been re-introduced into the US Senate. The legislation has been sponsored by GOP, Democrat and Independent ...

Shaw on recruitment drive after restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... planning, insurance and philanthropic services. Shaw head of private wealth (and former Macquarie Private Wealth North America chief executive) Earl Evans described the rebrand as "more than veneering an old piece of timber" and said Shaw was responding ...

Australian shares up on ease over Greece

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
The Australian share market has risen well over one per cent following offshore markets' tempered reaction to Greece's rejection of bailout terms. US and European stock markets dipped slightly overnight, but not as much as feared in the wake of Sunday's ...

Shaw hires and restructures as holistic advice firm

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... February appointment of head of private wealth Earl Evans, who was formerly chief executive of Macquarie Private Wealth North America. Evans also sits on Shaw's board, holds a significant equity stake in the business and in the past three months has ...