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Trustee survey reveals top asset classes

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
Infrastructure, private equity and commodities are going to be the most preferred asset classes this year, according to a trustee survey released this week. According to a Centre for Investor Education survey of 30 industry fund trustees and retirement ...

Communication top priority for 2009

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
Financial planners new to the industry face even tougher challenges this year to gain the trust of their clients. According to young financial planners Brad Fox from Total Financial Solutions and Synchron's Sarah Riegelhuth, the toughest challenge for ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
The Australian share market was slightly higher at noon, buoyed by a modest recovery in the financials sector and following gains on Wall Street. At 1215 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was firmer by 16.7 points or 0.49 per cent at 3459.5, while ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
So it was, so it shall be. The odds - the Dow fell in 12 out of the past 16 US Presidential Inaugurations - have prevailed. Now it's 13 out of 17. The Dow fell by 4.1 per cent and the S&P 500 dropped by 5.3 per cent as Barack Obama is confirmed as the ...

Pinnacle taps private equity demand

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
Pinnacle attracts two key private equity execs from AMP to run its newly-launched fund at a time when many investors are starting to trawl the market for the best private equity investments. Pinnacle Investment Management yesterday announced the establishment ...

2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Happy new year? Perhaps in 2010. The top central bankers meeting in Basel Switzerland came to the same conclusion yesterday. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet -- wearing his cap as head of the Bank of International Settlements - declared ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
'Tis the season to be jolly. Christmas has arrived early for equity investors. Or has it? Stock markets around the world rallied between 5 and 8 per cent yesterday and overnight, punctuated by the Dow's peeping above the 9,000 mark in intra-day trade ...

IG Markets launches brand campaign

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
CFD provider IG Markets will spend $5 million on a local campaign as part of a global push to raise public awareness of the FTSE-listed brand in Australia. IG Markets' country chief executive in Australia, Tamas Szabo, said that the campaign is targeted ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Two million jobs and counting. This is the number of Americans that will bring increased profits to Campbell Soup come Christmas time. And because these ordinary taxpayers' have to give part of their now non-existent income and drastically reduced wealth ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher today as Wall Street heads into the Thanksgiving holiday in positive territory. At 0800 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange was up 126 points at 3,691. ...