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CHOICE selects top FHSAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
AMP Bank, NSW Teachers Credit Union (NTCU) and Victorian Teachers Credit Union (VTCU) are the three institutions that received the thumbs up in a new report on First Home Savers Accounts (FHSAs) by consumer body CHOICE. FHSAs are deposit savings accounts ...

APRA rebuffs super stats critics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
APRA has smacked down criticism by retail groups that the regulator's superannuation fund performance research is flawed. Ross Jones, APRA deputy chairman, in a letter accompanying the release of their report, A Response to [the] Review of APRA's Investment ...

Bill failed, what next?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
The Australian stockmarket lost $45 billion by noon after the US Congress rejected the proposed bail-out package, but local investment experts argue that we are nowhere close a doomsday scenario, in fact quite the contrary. Sharemarket expert Dale Gilham ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market had lost about $45 billion in value by noon, after Wall Street went into convulsions overnight following the rejection by lawmakers of a massive rescue of the US financial system. At 1215 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 had ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
You call last week a sell-off, this is a sell-off. Wall Street is now more than US$1,000,000,000,000 (US$1 trillion) cheaper as investors dumped stocks following news of the US House of Representatives' rejection of the US$700 billion financial sector ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market had moved into the red by noon, dragged lower by the big miners and most of the major banks, while the local market digested news of the agreement reached in the US on the Wall Street bailout. At 1217 AEST, the benchmark ...

NZ Super suffers $568m loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
The world credit crisis has drawn blood from another victim, with New Zealand Superannuation Fund posting a loss of $568 million or 4.92 per cent for the year ended 30 June 2008. The 4.92 per cent figure was the fund's net return on investment for the ...

Aussies fear online fin services

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
Care to seek online financial advise or arrange a credit card via the Internet? No thanks, says nearly 4.2 million Australians. New research from Datamonitor show that Australian consumers are divided regarding online financial services. Around 27 per ...

AFA pilot course a success

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
Course administrators and participants have hailed the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) inaugural FChFP Pathway Program a success. Richard Klipin, AFA chief executive, said for 11 advisers to participate in the pilot program is a great result ...

Managers seek ESG framework

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
Effectively managing and pricing environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment processes remains the biggest hurdle for integration. Speaking at the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA) conference yesterday, Ian ...