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Funny Mae, Froggy Mac

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
... and around the globe. This turmoil would directly and negatively impact household wealth: from family budgets, to home values, to savings for college and retirement. A failure would be harmful to economic growth and job creation. That is why we have ...

IRESS buys DMS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... technology play in planner commissions processing. IRESS has announced it acquired DMS for 1,083,334 shares in IRESS, which values the transaction at $6.65 million based on yesterday's closing price of $6.14 per share. Under the deal, IRESS absorbs DMS ...

Australians lead FM pack

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... out-perform it - the 9 per cent employer's superannuation contribution. This will continue throughout the period that asset values are low," said Ross Nayler, dealer principal of AFG Financial Planning. "With employment remaining strong and 9 per cent ...

Planners miss sustainable mark: Fahy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... planning community, there wasn't that sense of immediacy and urgency," he said. "There are lots of people who are 'living the values of sustainability', but we feel that in the planning and the wealth management space, people are not yet engaged and ...

Unlisted assets poised for higher illiquidity premiums

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... the board are still quite sound so if you are looking at property for income, should you be highly concerned about unit values? These things move in cycles," he said. All things being equal, Ireland dispelled the fallacy that unlisted property is a much ...

New tech counters terrorist attacks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... domestic transfer, and for all domestic transfers to include full originator information in the payment message for payment values above $10,000. According to Logica, HotScan Plus has been developed in response to this and now enables banks and investor ...

FTSE100 pensions in the red

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... makes June stand out is the spectre of inflation making benefits significantly more expensive at the same time as asset values fell." He said that while the increase in corporate bond yields partly offset the effect of inflation, it wasn't enough to ...

Moody's takes action after ratings blunder

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2008
... analysts. Raymond McDaniel, Moody's chair and chief executive, said the integrity of its rating process is core to the firm's values and is essential to the market. "We are taking immediate and appropriate action to address the lapse in our rating process ...

High Net Worth wealth tops $42tr

Iron Ore price jumps 85 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... cent. Despite the upbeat export numbers from agriculture, the real revenues are from minerals and energy exports as their values are forecast to grow six times more than those from agriculture, or around $178 billion in 2008-09. This is up 48 per cent ...