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QE2 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
QE2: Coming soon to a theatre near you! Faster than fiscal spending, more powerful than QE1, able to lift employment and prevent deflation in a single bound! Look up in the sky...it's QE2! Wall Street is abuzz with speculation that the Fed would very ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
The Australian market is receiving generally positive leads from offshore trading overnight. European market indices were slightly lower, but Wall St bounced back in late trading following indications from the US Federal Reserve that it was preparing ...

Good vintage yields strong returns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
Australian stocks were lower at noon, pulled down by the resources and banking sector after indecisive leads from overseas markets. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 32 points lower, or 0.7 per cent, at 4,664.5 while the broader All Ordinaries ...

AMIST Super takes driver's seat on cash and bonds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
AMIST Super makes full use of its newly-established internal investment team by taking a cash mandate in-house and working closer with one of its existing fund managers on a bond mandate. In August, AMIST hired Megan Pham, formerly the assistant investment ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
It was another ho-hum day on Wall Street last night. Nothing much was expected, nothing much transpired. US stocks ended flat in light trading activity as the bond market and government offices closed in celebration of the day Christopher Columbus came ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
The Australian market is receiving flat leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall St indices flat, oil slightly lower, precious metals were higher. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0736 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was ...

Great Southern investors target BABL

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
Around 2,000 Great Southern investors launched a class action in the Federal Court to recover losses from bankers, including Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited (BABL), which lent them money to invest in the schemes. Investors have asked the Federal Court ...

Key planners crucial when planning firms sell

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
There are many ways to measure how much a financial planning practice or dealer group is worth when it is up for sale or eyeing a public float - high on this list is whether the key advisers are going to stay or not, industry experts say. Ian Jedlin ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
Australian stocks sat around 20 points higher by noon, with the materials sector leading off the back of strong commodity prices. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 19.7 points higher, or 0.42 per cent, at 4701.1 while the broader All ...