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New Berkshire fund buys Buffet

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
Investment group JB Global is offering a second capital-protected fund investing in Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire has produced an average compounded gain of 20.2 per cent in book value every year since 1965. Buffet, the world's most ...

No $900 slug for planners: FPA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
The Financial Planning Association said it won't be asking financial planners to pay increased fees of $900 under its proposed new fee structure. Fears about fee hikes for individual planners surfaced this morning after a news story in a trade publication ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... confirm improving labour market conditions in America. All the signs leading up to Friday night's jobs release pointed to this. Let's count the ways. The ISM indices - manufacturing and non-manufacturing. These are reliable and good leading indicators ...

StatewideSuper upgrades insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... Kelly Bonato, manager client and employer services, StatewideSuper. "What's more, we have already had just over 1,000 members let us know about the changes to their occupation so they receive better cover thanks to the occupations cover," said Bonato. ...

Let the games begin

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
Financial services regulator ASIC this morning released its timetable for the introduction of market competition, which will allow Chi-X Australia to compete head to head with the ASX, and said the new market integrity rules (MIRs) should be in place ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... big "if" if you ask me. Certainly, it becomes scarier given the spotlight in the region and the unfolding events there. But let me take you back to the events of the past. Remember the financial pages last year? When talking heads predicted that the ...

SG war far from over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
The super fund campaign to increase inflows through a forced rise in compulsory contribution levels seems to be stalling with the AIST again maneuvered into coming out to defend the rise from another business lobby attack. "Employers had nothing to ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
Dip buyers are coming out on top in the current financial market stakes. Perhaps they're even secretly hoping for a repeat of that 1.8 per cent one-day drop in the S&P 500 index late last month - back when Egyptians first tried to prise Pharaoh Mubarak's ...

Westpac to launch more structured products for SMSFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... is no obligation to make the second payment. Investor can choose to either fully own the shares by paying off the loan or let the product provider, in this case Westpac, to sell the shares to pay off any outstanding amount. "SFIs are simple to use and ...

Levy disaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011