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Can't hear you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... S&P 500 to 1450 from 1500 and shaving its end-2012 earnings estimate to US$104 per share from US$106. Despite Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker revealing that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may not release its portion of a 12 billion-euro ...

Judgment Day bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... fry, cutting Italy's credit outlook from stable to negative. There's trouble in Spain too with the huge losses suffered by Prime Minister Zapatero's ruling Socialist Party at the local and regional elections. The speculation is that the new municipal ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... a word - they call it restructuring) speculation. There's "out of the Eurozone" speculation. And last night, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker added to these speculations - and another word in our lexicon - that of "reprofiling" which is ...

AXA real estate bullish on Japanese debt

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... institutions. The Japanese Commercial Real Estate Debt Investment vehicle will focus on newly originated senior loans backed by prime commercial real estate assets in the Greater Tokyo region. AXA Real Estate said the vehicle would invest directly or ...

Alpha puts its money where its mouth is

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Alpha Structured Investments (Alpha) is tackling the big issues - how advisers can address client investment concerns and find the products that will re-ignite their desire to invest. Alpha is holding a half-day seminar, '2011 Tax Effective Investing ...

Industry funds primed for more planning deals

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Industry funds are expected to follow AustralianSuper's lead in forming closer alliances with financial planners, as they look to provide advice to more members. News that the $37 billion AustralianSuper will partner with six financial planning groups ...

Swan names new ASIC, ACCC heads

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales, councilor of the National Competition Council, expert adviser to the Prime Minister's Multi-Party Climate Change Committee and a member of the Research and Policy Council of the Committee for Economic ...

Gillard urges China investment relationship

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has encouraged a strong investment relationship with China after speaking at a China-Australia business forum, with talk of tight economic integration between the two nations. As part of her address, Gillard said that China ...

Planners prime legal targets for angry clients

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
Financial planners relying on research are sitting ducks for legal action in the wake of the Trio Capital superannuation fraud and need to protect themselves, a planner has said. In the case of the Trio Capital fraud, adviser Ross Tarrant's firm Tarrants ...

Property primed for inflow pick up

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
Fund managers are urging investors not to miss out on property stocks while at the bottom of the cycle because inflows into the sector remain down. Martin Hession, head of property, Australian Unity, said that retail investment in unlisted funds was ...