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BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Going nowhere fast. This is what the Dow did over the past two days. The Dow Jones Industrial Index dropped 122 points - the biggest since mid-December - after rallying by 116 points the day before. The Dow closed at a 15-month high on speculation that ...

Bonds need a double dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
It cannot be denied that risk assets trounced defensive ones in 2009 - and by a long shot - as investor optimism surrounding the global recovery gathered pace. But as 2009 became 2010, investors seemed not too sure. Suddenly investors are not so sure ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
China is proving true to the words uttered by US President John F. Kennedy half a century earlier. In a speech in Indianapolis delivered on 12 April 1959, JFK said that, "When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents ...

US reform tightens net on big firms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... Pensions and Investments report that the Democrats have beaten back an attempt to weaken a key provision of the reforms bill - the proposed creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). Instead, an amendment proposed was the establishment ...

State Super invests $270m in Epoch fund

COMNPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
State Super Financial Services has injected $270 million into Epoch Investment Partners' Global Equity Shareholder Yield strategy. The SSFS mandate will be managed by Epoch's Eric Sappenfield, managing director and portfolio manager. "Epoch's investment ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
The Australian sharemarket was more than one per cent lower at noon, in a broad-based declined led by the miners, after the US market declined overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 56.9 points, or 1.19 per cent, at 4,717.7 ...

ComSuper faces executive and admin reforms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
Government superannuation schemes have not escaped ongoing governance reviews, with the schemes' administrator ComSuper mandated to outsource some of its work to cut taxpayer bill and the 'Commissioner for Superannuation' role dropped in favour of a ...

Mariner veteran sets up A3L

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
Scott Marinchek, founder and former head of Mariner Third-age Retirement Living, has set up his own institutional investment management business, Aviiid Third-age Living. Marinchek launched the firm on Wednesday, and said the business focuses on tapping ...

Lessons learned from Opes Prime

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
From selling sophisticated products to retail investors to ineffective disclosure, the Ripoll Inquiry has investigated the factors that fuelled the failure of Opes Prime - and outlined what needs to be done to prevent future disasters. One of the biggest ...

FPA names Value of Advice winners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
Peter Wilson from Strategic Wealth Management Solutions; Paul Little, Landmark Financial Management; Josef Stadler, PSK Financial Services and Chris Craggs from Argurion Financial Group have won the FPA's Value of Advice Awards. Wilson won the Financial ...