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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... building housing one of its reactors on Saturday, a day after the biggest quake ever recorded in Japan unleashed a monster tsunami. Meanwhile, the Australian bond market was firmer. At 1200 AEDT on the ASX 24, the March 10-year bond futures contract ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... gains on Friday as investors gauged the fallout from a massive earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan and triggered tsunami waves from Asia to California. The prospect of falling oil demand from Japan sent crude oil prices down to $101 a barrel. ...

The day the earth moved

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... Zealand less than a month before (25 February 2011). The force of the quake was so great that apart from triggering a tsunami in the Pacific Ocean, it reportedly has also shifted the earth's axis by 25 centimetres and triggered a meltdown in Japan's ...

Mutual funds gain record flows

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... markets. "Investor inertia is giving way to renewed trust in the stability of the mutual fund vehicle as the financial tsunami is being downgraded to scattered thunderstorms," he said. Enskat said the crisis has placed asset allocation, portfolio construction ...

Bullish bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
Forty years ago today, what was thought beyond the realms of human possibility became reality. Man landed on the moon. No one also imagined Professor Nouriel Roubini turning into a bull. For as long as I care to remember Professor Nouriel Roubini was ...

AFA conference to focus on leadership

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... Masterclass sessions. For example, Peter Baines, who has led crisis teams following the Bali Bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami as a senior member of the NSW Police, will lead a Masterclass session on leadership and resource and crisis management. Similar ...

Clients come first: FPA

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... market fallout. "Most financial advisers don't see climate change on the radar, but when the dust settles, there's another tsunami [climate change] on the way. Climate change is an issue that won't go away as easily, said Bloch, and financial advisers ...

Don't worry, be happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... remain strong. And besides, the RBA and the Federal Government has plenty in their war chests to cushion the financial tsunami that is afflicting most countries around the world. The danger for Australia, and for other countries indirectly touched by ...

Retirement liabilities dwarf assets six-fold

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... possible even link member longevity to the value of their benefits. Illustrating the extent of looming public pension tsunami, they said by 2040 China is expected to be paying pensions to almost 400 million people. Defined benefit funds, despite their ...

Retirees short on yield

... investors, have seen their yields crash as income hungry investors have pushed their prices sky high," he said. The Silver Tsunami and the Hunt for Yield report found a large proportion of the world's population is entering retirement, which has placed ...