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TPD insurance review closes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... costs up just at a time when premiums are under fundamental upward pressure due to re-insurers re-rating Australia as a high risk country.

Aust Unity boutiques cautious on year ahead

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... chief investment officer at international equities manager Wingate, agreed, but said that he is concerned about the high risk appetite and the effect in the four areas of commodities; small caps; emerging markets; and the Australian dollar. "How China ...

Former Soros partner targets retail market

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... product sticks with the age-old investment adage that 'the trend is your friend', rotating its asset allocation between high risk asset classes (such as developing market equities and small cap stocks) and low risk asset classes (such as bonds) as global ...

Basis Capital lesson far from over

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
The collapse of Basis Capital was a tragic example of what happens when a high risk investment goes wrong, but its also a reminder of the importance of a well-diversified portfolio, said a planner who had clients invested in Basis products. Matthew ...

Lessons from US pension funds in crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... Relative to the state's total annual tax revenues and Gross State Product, Ohio tops the list of pension funds with a high risk of going bust. That is, thee state would need to devote 8.75 years of tax revenue to pension funding simply to catch up on ...

Investors get $250m compensation for crook advice

FSA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... concerned that some [firms] continue to give poor advice. "Ignorance is no defence and we will continue to focus on the high risk firms through intensive supervision - we will not hesitate to take tough action against any firms that fall below our standards," ...

New credit ratings agency in town

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
Australia's credit ratings market has a new entrant - Corporate Scorecard - which recently received the green light from ASIC to operate as a licensed Credit Ratings Agency. According to a press release, CSC is the first Australian-owned CRA to obtain ...

Spam levels threaten inbox safety

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... emails. "Typically if it looks like a dangerous message, the safest thing is to not open it but it's not necessarily a high risk thing to look at a message," he said. "What you really don't want to do is open an attachment or go to a website that's in ...

Protection without commission: JB Global

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... also an advocate for green investments, noted that capital protection can come in handy for investors looking to tap high risk, offshore ESG-centric investments. "This way, [clients] can get the upside growth such as those in the renewable energy sector ...

Actuaries call for advice 'stress test'

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... the institute's Wealth Management Committee, said the stress test would allow consumers to understand the impact of high risk strategies. "If each of the investors who lost their life savings through their involvement with some high profile collapses ...