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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... took a tumble overnight. "There is more of a cautious mood setting in across markets and when that happens you see the high risk/high yielding assets like the Aussie dollar lose steam," he said. In Europe, London's FTSE 100 dropped 1.03 per cent and ...

Where now brown cow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... greater risk of sovereign restructuring than ever before." Greece "will have to restructure again," Portugal has a "very high risk" of restructuring next year and Ireland requires "additional official sector support." There's also our old friend Ben ...

ASIC to take hard line on deliberately misleading ads

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... advertisement should not undermine the importance of the risks." ASIC specified contracts for difference (CFDs) as being high risk products that can potentially expose investors to larges loss, and said ads shouldn't allude to the contrary. "Build personal ...

S&P downgrades US bank ratings

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... criteria included the approach to investment banking, funding analysis, and the capital standards used, particularly in high risk countries. Wall Street had closed before these latest downgrades were announced. S&P downgraded the ratings of the following ...

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," ...