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China's investor confidence crisis

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Following a decade-long bear market that led to a huge sell-off in the 1990s, China's investors have experienced spectacular stock gains since the wave of partial privatisations two years ago. But a dramatic sell-down that shaved 10 per cent off share ...

Conflicting rate calls

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
There's growing expectation among European economists that the European Central Bank (ECB) will be forced to follow the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England and start lowering interest rates. Ironically, iterations from executive board member Juergen ...

Perpetual FUM falls by $700m

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
Diversified fund manager Perpetual Limited takes a $700 million hit in its funds under management (FUM) in December due to dampened investor sentiment. Perpetual announced that its FUM at the end of last year totalled $37.2 billion - 1.9 per cent lower ...

US-Aust rates spread widens to 250 bps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
The US cut in interest rates to just 4.25 per cent pushes the differential against Aussie rates to a near record high of 250 basis points and signals more turbulence for the AUD and jittery world share markets. The third US rate cut this year continues ...

Singapore and ME fund swoop on UBS

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
Government of Singapore Investment Corp and an unidentified Middle Eastern investor (rumoured to be a state controlled fund from Oman) have chipped in $11.6 billion in capital into UBS to lift it out of the sub-prime funding jungle. This is the latest ...

Non-TFN tax attack

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
The 31.5 per cent tax penalty to be applied to super funds without member tax file numbers (TFN) risk massively damaging the retirement incomes of members who either don't know about the rule change or who can least afford the tax hit. Raising the dire ...

AIG's insurance web revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
The insurance web revolution has taken an extra step forward with AIG's release of their latest website that fully integrates underwriting with business flow management and administration. "Thirty per cent of call centre inquiries concern insurance ...

Suncorp Aus equities team sets up boutique

Suncorp Investment Management suffers a big blow after its top-ranked Australian equities team, in charge of more than $5 billion in funds, resigned to start a boutique. Boutique incubator Pinnacle Investment Management has signed employment contracts ...

India: a country within a country

ALEX DUNNIN REPORTING FROM MUMBAI AND NEW DELHI AT THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
India's dramatic transformation into the modern economy is even more remarkable given its socialist past and the fact it was almost bankrupt just five years ago. "We used to have great faith in socialism especially when Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open lower on a negative US lead. At 0745 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index was down 114 points at 6422. Today, Harvey Norman Holdings Ltd, Centrebet International Ltd, Ainsworth ...