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Future Fund posts 1.81pc first quarter loss

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
The $63 billion Future Fund's overweight allocation to cash has paid off in the first quarter of this year - losing a mere 1.81 per cent when many funds suffered double-digit losses over the same period. This result, combined with the 2007/08 year ...

Three wise economists

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
Hopeful signs that the squeeze on the credit markets is beginning to loosen gave Wall Street another leg up overnight. The Dow closed 4.7 per cent higher, the S&P 500 ended 4.8 per cent up and the Nasdaq rose by 3.4 per cent at the finish. It was the ...

Secure Computing beats hackers at own game

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
Secure Computing is helping financial services firms from inadvertently downloading malicious software without limiting the sites they can access by thinking like a hacker. The Australian Tax Office, the Royal Mint and a range of local banks are known ...

JPMorgan buys DME stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
JPMorgan joins a number of global financial institutions and energy firms as an equity stakeholder in the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME). The global investment bank joins Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Vitol, Concord Energy, Casa Energy Trading and ...

Aviva's term deposits hit $430m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
Aviva's term deposits increased by $300 million to more than $430 million this year as superannuation members move their investments out of listed markets. The firm's term deposits have grown from $5 million to over $430 million this year with approximately ...

IG Markets enables chart trading

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
IG Markets has launched a new CFD trading system that allows investors to trade from charts of market data. Developed in partnership with IT-Finance, the new DealThru Charts cover over 70 technical indicators and are updated in real time. The new system ...

CFD traders hibernate during crisis

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
The number of 'dormant' contracts for difference (CFD) traders rose 71 per cent from April last year to August 2008 due to market uncertainty. According to the third annual 2008 Contracts For Difference Report by Investment Trends, the number of CFD ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
Australian stocks were marginally higher at noon after falling oil prices and easing credit markets helped soothe investor jitters on Wall Street overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 19.2 points, or 0.48 per cent, at 4,032.6, after ...

Perennial bears the bear

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
Fund manager Perennial turns to history to give financial planners cogent tips on how to ride the bear market and even better, beat the doom-and-gloomsters. Any way you describe the events of the last two months would be nothing short of an understatement. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
The Australian share market was trading more than five per cent lower at noon dragged down by the resources sector and after heavy losses from Wall Street. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 237.6 points, or 5.53 per cent, at 4,062.4, while ...