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Australian Child Care revamps super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... Super Fund also elected to use Ausfund as its nominated ERF from 1 November 2008. But the fund's attention to ERF doesn't stop there. The fund has embarked on a "Win a trip to Bali" promotion in a bid to encourage their members to actively rollover their ...

S&P ramps up research division

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Standard & Poor's is pulling out all the stops to cope with institutional demand, hiring five analysts to its local research division and creating an "out of cycle" ratings team to review new products. The ratings firm hired former Westpac Private Bank ...

Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
And so it came to pass. The election of Barack Obama to the highest post in the biggest and most powerful economy of the world would forever be etched into the annals of history - not only in America, but also throughout the entire planet. It is just ...

The other race

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
Punters would have been better off putting their hard-earned dollar into the Melbourne Cup winner - Viewed -- yesterday than on the RBA rate cut expecting an equity market gain. Both provided a surprise outcome, but while Viewed returned A$46.50 to ...

October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... Day - the 'Race that Stops the Nation' - at the same time that the US holds its Presidential Elections - the 'Race that May Stop Panic.' While Australia is certain that it would get an RBA rate cut tomorrow, the US is not sure they will get the President ...

Aussies rethink super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
More than 20 per cent of working Australians have reduced their super contributions, changed their investment options or switched to a new super fund in the last three months, a new survey shows. Data from a Newspoll survey conducted on behalf of the ...

Daily funnies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
People don't need to read the funny pages anymore to get their daily amusement fix. They only have to read the way the media interpret the daily movements in the stockmarket. Wall Street rallied almost 11 per cent last night. Here is Bloomberg's interpretation ...

I'll have what she's having

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... fiasco the Rudd government created with its bank guarantee and its after-effect on mortgage funds doesn't it? It does not stop there. Other institutions are also asking to have what the banks are having. On 24 October, the Financial Services Roundtable ...

More pain for insurance firms

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
Global insurance brokerage firm Aon has warned that following AIG's troubles and government rescue, there will be more bad news from insurers as the sector undergoes mass asset depletion and capital shortage. Speaking yesterday at Aon's 2008 Advanced ...

Crisis on Facebook

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... new Facebook groups since the crisis started include 'Nationalise The Lot', 'No Golden Parachutes for Bailout CEOs' and 'Stop the Housing Bailout'. Competing for the amusing but true websites however were Facebook groups titled 'No payment for Worthless ...