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Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
ave the grizzlies driven the dip buyers away? Americans came back from their President's Day holiday and saw that nervy days are back again. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.1 per cent overnight - its biggest in 6 months - and the VIX or "fear index" ...

I heart the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
I heart the RBA. Who wouldn't? OK, ok... most borrowers perhaps. But in the general scheme of things it's on top of the list on my Valentine's list. The minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's February Board meeting is set for outing today. The minutes ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
The Australian share market was slightly lower in morning trade on Friday, with Telstra one of the few bright spots as civil unrest in Egypt continued to dampen investor sentiment. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 11.3 points, or ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
The Australian market has flat to mixed negative leads from offshore trading overnight. The Dow ended higher, but Wall Streets's other key indices were lower, as were European and Asian markets in Wednesday trade. Precious metals were higher, but oil ...

Wall Street does an Abbott

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011

Sunsuper adds another property mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
Sunsuper has expanded its direct property portfolio after purchasing a $107 million property to compliment its national growth strategy. The super fund said the property purchase would add diversification to its investment portfolio. "This addition ...

Chimerica threat looms over returns

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
A leading fund manager argues that many investors are too pessimistic about the US and too optimistic about other markets, particularly China. Speaking at a lunch briefing yesterday, Martin Conlon, head of Australian equities at Schroder Investment ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
"It's getting better all the time Better Better Better It's getting better all the time Better Better Better. Getting so much better all the time." - Beatles Less than a week ago, I wrote on this space, "it's just a matter of a few sleeps till we get ...

Three in five advisers opt out of opt-in: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
Research published last week reveals fierce resistance from financial advisers to adopt the proposed annual 'opt-in' reforms, arguing the approach could do more damage than not to their clients' portfolios and impose more compliance burden on their ...

Trustees review fine print

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
The twin themes of super funds gaining more scale and moving more of their investment management in-house will force trustees to add extra layers of governance or risk losing large sums of fund members' money, experts said. The recent case of AvSuper ...