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Super industry warned of hack attacks

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... Det-Inspector van der Graaf said booting your computer from a free Linux boot disc would make your computer 100 per cent safe from trojans. When asked if international cyber gangs would specifically target Australia's $1.23 trillion superannuation industry ...

Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... program. In other words, QE2 is here to stay. And if not enough, we'll roll out QE3. So is the investment environment now safe to get back into risk assets because tomorrow will be a better day? My dear, don't you think risk assets are called risk assets ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Oil is the word, is the word, is the word. Yup there's no turning the pages of the political, economic and financial news without seeing the letters O-I-L these days. And all because of "Queen" Qaddafi's (UK's The Telegraph reported that he "pleaded ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... assets. By 1025 AEDT, there was about one share up for every three shares down in the S&P ASX 50. Gold provided a solitary safe haven for the market, with shares in miner Newcrest Mining Ltd up 16 cents at $39.10. Gold rose to its highest level in more ...

Performance fees more popular: Morningstar

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
The lure of performance fees harks back to ancient Phoenician sea captains who kept a fifth of the profits from successful voyages, a piece of history invoked by Alfred Winslow Jones, inventor of hedge funds, when he took 20 per cent of the profits. ...

Deutsche bourse and NYSE to merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011

Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
Christian Szell: Is it safe?... Is it safe? Babe: You're talking to me? Christian Szell: Is it safe? Babe: Is what safe? Christian Szell: Is it safe? Babe: I don't know what you mean. I can't tell you something's safe or not, unless I know specifically ...

Movers and shakers of 2010

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
Regulatory reforms, politics, and high profile M&A activity dominated the financial services landscape this year - Financial Standard looks back at the stories that shook up the industry this year. It was an extraordinary year in Australian politics. ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
"Torn between two lovers, feelin' like a fool" - Mary MacGregor Good thing my wife is on holidays far, far away otherwise the shape of my skull would be embedded in one of our frying pans when she reads my opening line. But honey, you know I refer not ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... Germans to say, I say. Their economy is benefiting from the European turmoil in terms of a weak euro, low interest rates and safe haven flows into their bond market. It's been so good for the Germans that its finance ministry even boasted last night ...