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Raise your fixed income bet: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... capital protection. "As volatile market conditions may persist for sometime, investors should aim to have a balanced assessment of the sector as opportunities are beginning to emerge in credit securities which we have not seen for some time," said Wong. ...

RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... while inflation remains a real threat. The US Federal Reserve meets tomorrow night to conduct its own monetary policy assessment, followed by the Bank of England and the European Central Bank meetings on Friday.

Fed Gloom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... US$0.9800 level, reaching a high of US$0.9849, before settling at around US$0.9780. Fed Chairman Bernanke issued a downbeat assessment of US economic growth, telling Congress that the Fed sees "significant downside risks" to the growth outlook while ...

Macq Life imports underwriting and claims head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... advice on underwriting and claims cases, removing the need for the firm to refer complex medical cases for further assessment. "We believe Sally will be instrumental in bringing fresh ideas to the business, sharing her experiences in the South African ...

Market Movers Overnight (8 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... News out of Japan shows that Asia is not immune from the global slowdown. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) left its quarterly assessment of the economy unchanged. However, details indicate that the assessment is much worse than the topline assessment. The BoJ ...

New tech counters terrorist attacks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... be used at a high-brow level, it is also able to filter customers and account databases in batch, for periodic risk assessment. The software reduces risk by checking all fields of every transaction against the configured watch lists. In February this ...

SAM green funds re-branded to Vanguard

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
Two Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) funds are shedding their SAM titles and will now fall under the Vanguard banner, as part of a re-branding exercise. The re-branded Vanguard Sustainability Leaders Australian Shares Fund and Vanguard Sustainability ...

Asian banks still insulated from sub-prime

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
... markets as their developed world cousins. The robustness of the respective country economies also helped. Schuler's assessment is contained in the latest version of Moody's annual Asia Banking Outlook, which looks at a total of 15 regional systems, and ...

ATO sends warning to super fund trustees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
... superannuation so people need to make sure they don't exceed the cap or they will receive an excess contribution tax assessment." He said super fund trustees must consider any income, capital gains and fringe benefits tax implications when transferring ...

Oil frenzy is storm before the calm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
... recovers, the oil price could head to US$300 per barrel, said Oliver. "Beyond the speculative frenzy now underway, our assessment is that the long term trend will remain up as supply struggles to keep up with demand with the result being that $US300 ...