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Treasuries still strong: ML

RUTH LIEW AND MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Investors with funds invested in US Treasuries should hang on to their investments for at least the next six months - despite some punters voicing fears that the sector might be next asset class in the US to implode, according to an industry expert. ...

Govt move aids planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
The government's decision to temporarily suspend the minimum draw down requirement for account-based pensions allows planners the ability to keep their client's money invested in the market. Yesterday, minister for superannuation and corporate law ...

National clearing house shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
As the government moves closer to firming up its plans for how to deliver its national superannuation clearing house, new models are emerging regarding how it could be done. In the May Budget last year, the Rudd government announced it had allocated ...

Planners champion risk advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Risk advice is today high on the agenda of advisers' businesses as a new survey shows advisers earn over a quarter of their practice revenue from risk products - a 30 per cent jump from 2007. According to the latest planner risk and risk technology ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... Street to Main Street. Just one day after he signed his autograph on a piece of paper turning the US$787 billion stimulus plan into law - which did not impress equity markets - Obama unveiled a US$275 billion Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... Stocks declined on Wall Street on Wednesday as President Barack Obama released details of his $75 billion mortgage relief plan and investors remained uncertain about the prospects for the economy. Obama's announcement of the plan comes a day after he ...

ING wins $270m QBE mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
ING Australia has won a $270 million mandate to manage QBE's $350 million default corporate super fund. According to ING, the new mandate will combine QBE's three separate superannuation plans under one umbrella. QBE's main fund has approximately $270 ...

Self-employed are more picky with advice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
Self-employed people are 25 per cent less satisfied on average with the planning services they received from their planners compared to retirees and other employed workers, a new survey found. The Business Health CATScan client satisfaction research ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... markets' without stating how? Nice gig eh? Perhaps I am being too much of a sceptic. Perhaps the G-7 has developed a concrete plan to turn the global financial crisis around hatched behind close doors. Perhaps not. For if they did, it would have been ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... Obama is set to sign the $US787 billion ($A1.21 trillion) stimulus package into law on Tuesday. He will also be outlining a plan to help stem mortgage foreclosures on Wednesday. Wall Street had eagerly awaited the government's plans to help the economy ...