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Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Happy consumers beget a happy Wall Street. Green sprouts starting to flower? Neither Kim Jung Il's rattling of his nuclear sabre nor a reminder that US house prices continue to fall were able to prevent Wall Street from turning in a strong finish last ...

FPA and Bannister Mansfield settle in court

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and Bannister Mansfield have settled in court and the financial planning firm's director, Gavin Murphy, has apologised for the ads placed in the media. The FPA started proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia ...

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... delicately balance the competing forces of continuing to nurture the fledgling recovery and buckling under popular pressure to stop spending. Protectionism, competitive devaluations and efforts to limit the national debt --then US President Hoover tried ...

Acronyms pull down USD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... US$7.7 billion worth of seven and 10-year US Treasury bonds as soon as it heard the opening bell on Wall Street. It did not stop there -- it went back for a second helping - and bought another US$3.1 billion worth of Agency securities before closing. ...

Bull market on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... sustainable. At worst, the statistic becomes highly suspect. Deteriorations must slow first - which is what is happening now - then stop before a meaningful improvement could eventuate. This is perhaps why Wall Street ignored last night's report of a ...

Aspen fund holds 'recommended' rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... Australian and South Australian resource areas, reliance on tourism industry and a relatively high fee structure. Yet that didn't stop platform provider, netwealth, from adding the fund to the firm's investment and super wrap last month. The Aspen Parks ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was marginally weaker at noon following a negative lead from Wall Street and lower commodities prices overnight, but some buoyancy was provided by banks, miners and consumer staples stocks. At 1201 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

LaSalle raises $400m in Mexican fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
The swine flu may have put a dampener on Mexico's local economy but that hasn't stopped LaSalle Investment Management from successfully raising $400 million in a fund that invests in Mexico's real estate market. LaSalle Mexico Fund was closed this month ...

Baby boomers hang on to investments

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... this generation view retirement very actively - as a series of phases -rather than a period where everything [comes] to a stop," said Gunning. "Gone are the days where working life ceases and retirement begins, particularly with the Baby Boomers who ...

Global funds face currency pains

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... fund managers have been caught out by the 30 per cent fall in the Australian dollar late last year, forcing some funds to stop distributing income to unit holders for the March quarter. Research firm Zenith Investment Partners reported that the $240 ...