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Trio funds to be wound up

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
PPB, the administrator of Trio Capital, is filing a court application to wind up six of the failed fund manager's funds following an initial investigation of the schemes. According to a letter from PPB, an application will be filed with the court this ...

When the time comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... circumvented the EU Maastricht deficit rules". Sunk by derivatives...again! Creative accounting...again! Why am I not surprised? Let's leave Greece for now with the knowledge that its European brothers would do all they could to keep it afloat - like ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... regulations and limitations that every member country must adhere to came with the formation of the Eurozone 11 years ago. Let's take a look at one. The Maastricht Treaty, which led to the creation of the euro, set a budget deficit ceiling of no more ...

Asian equities to open up

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
A new technology deal struck by major Asia-Pacific stock exchanges with NYSE Technologies this month could pave the way for more Australian investors to buy Asian equities much easier than before. According to a press statement, Bursa Malaysia (BM) ...

Check unit prices on your mobile: Quadrant

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
Checking unit prices on your personal computer is so 2009 - Quadrant Super has launched a new service letting members review their unit prices on their mobile phones. The fund launched its mobile phone unit pricing service earlier this month, making ...

APRA targets illegal early release on super

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
Planners should take note of how they can help clients combat the illegal early release (IER) of super benefits, following APRA's letter last week to super fund trustees vulnerable to the practice. In the letter, APRA specifically targets IER involving ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... rates equals weaker economy. What a tangled web we weaved... The good news lies in the hope that the European Union would not let the PIGS roll in the mud. And in the unlikely event that it does, there is still the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ...

Sign Say on Pay: CalPERS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
The California Public Employees' Retirement System has signed a letter from institutional investors urging financial companies to support the shareowner advisory vote on executive compensation. CalPERS was among approximately 30 investors that signed ...

Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... favourite model Rachel Hunter once said, "it won't happen overnight but it will happen". Well, maybe. More on this later. For now let's look at the recently released manufacturing numbers. The US Institute of Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing index ...

No pleasing Mr. Market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... first three consecutive weeks of falls since July. What's Mr. Market worrying about is what I couldn't completely fathom. Let's take a walk back our short-term memory lane. At the start of the week, investors and speculators alike were worried about ...