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Our fearful trip is done

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
"O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting..." Walt Whitman wrote this poem after US President Abraham Lincoln's assassination ...

Fundies struggle to manage costs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... cent said regulatory changes would be a key driver in cost cutting. Walter cost ratios are becoming a popular way to determine the profitability of a company. "Cost ratios have become fundamental in distinguishing winners from losers across the full ...

Super fund exec pay under fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
With shareholders in revolt about excessive remuneration pay of listed companies despite the market fallout, the focus is now on the remuneration pay of super fund executives, with WA Treasurer Troy Buswell reportedly attempting to block the chief exec ...

CEOs pay steady despite GFC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
The average cash pay of a S&P/ASX 100 company's chief executive held steady in 2008 - a sign CEO salaries, including those of financial services firms, came out relatively unscathed from the GFC. As the global financial crisis began in 2008 the average ...

Super funds should own fund managers: Gray

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... should own the managers [they hire]... that's the only way you'll get real alignment," argues Gray. "The fund should determine whether it's well aligned [with their investment partners], not the managers," he said. Gray critiqued the superannuation industry's ...

Helmich appointed Future2 chair

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
Financial Planning Association's (FPA) Future2 Foundation has appointed Steve Helmich, director at AMP Financial Services as trustee and chair. Helmich spent two years as a financial adviser before being appointed WA state manager at AMP Financial Services. ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
Wall Street has been on a holding pattern over the past three trading sessions. It's waiting...waiting...waiting. Waiting for what? Wall Street waits for the Fed's verdict on monetary policy. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) begins its two-day ...

IOSCO to impose new rule on FoHFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... expertise, experience and qualifications of the underlying hedge fund's portfolio manager and other service providers to determine if they could be liable for breaking the law or professional rules. The amendments also encourage FoHF managers to take ...

Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
Don't look now but the debate as to what letter of the alphabet the global recovery will take - U, V or W - could all turn out to be wrong. It could be an L with the horizontal part of the letter longer and downward sloping. Trust politicians to try ...

FOS swamped with complaints

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... those financial planning related. It said a significant portion of that figure would require a panel or adjudicator to determine the outcome, placing a massive strain on FOS' resources. As a result, FOS is revamping its terms of reference, which is currently ...