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Foreign shocks sparks IT scrutiny

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
Hedge funds and finance industry operators are paying up to 50 per cent more for old legacy disaster recovery management systems, a new technology provider has said. Alphaserve Technologies, a New York-based firm that provides risk management, performance ...

Voluntary top-up contribs not enough: ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... rates to 12 per cent will cost an estimated $240 million in 2013-14, but given the economy is expected to be in full recovery mode by then the SG increase will be able to act as a macroeconomic demand dampening, lessening inflation risks. These costs ...

Charter Hall targets advisers with SMA

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... at a discount to their underlying value while property values continue to rise. "The fund seeks to capitalise on this recovery by using active management to exploit market inefficiencies and buy high quality securities priced at a discount to their intrinsic ...

Up, down or sideways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... This time, these rationales are turned on their heads and used to explain why the Aussie is headed higher still. Global recovery, rising commodity prices, domestic interest rates will be up, increased risk appetite, yen carry trade and this time, US ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... 12,690.96. The broad-market S&P 500 advanced 8.42 points (0.62 per cent) to 1,355. Citing the economy's only "moderate" recovery, the Fed also kept the door open for more economic stimulus, while saying its current $US600 billion ($A556.2 billion) program ...

Any which way is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... the Fed decides to do, the implications for the market would be positive. Stop QE2. The Fed is confident that the US recovery is on solid footing and that it could weather all the lingering uncertainties in the global economy. Go QE3. Liquidity will ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... Wednesday's conclusion of a two-day meeting of the Federal Reserve's top policy panel, which is weighing whether the economic recovery can sustain itself with less central bank stimulus. Markets also were on tenterhooks for Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... Dealers said an unexpected jump in US new unemployment claims also hit sentiment, denting confidence in the US economic recovery after recent jobs data had been much more encouraging. Greek money market rates jumped sharply after German Finance Minister ...

All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... that "Most districts reported that labor market conditions were generally stronger than in their last reports." The US recovery marches on. But if this is the case, why then did the US bond market - that which is easily spooked by inflation and growth ...

Buying op

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... magazine's analysis that, "the oil price would need to leap, probably above its 2008 peak of almost $150 a barrel, to fell the recovery" and Dr. Nouriel Roubini's double-dip warning, "If you had the oil price going up to where it was in the summer of ...