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UN staff pension in "safe" hands

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... concluded its actuarial valuation process is solid and its asset allocation is adequate. "The fund's financial position is safe. The UNJSPF has fared better than most pension funds in weathering the crisis, its ability to meet pension benefit payments ...

Hedge funds hit by shorting ban

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... view the short selling ban has not only created problems in the industry, but has also damaged Australia's reputation as a safe and sophisticated market for offshore investors," said AIMA Australia chair Kim Ivey. He added that the absence of short selling ...

CHOICE warns of online fraud

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... Personal information is also kept on a number of government, bank, employer or video shop databases, however it is not clear how safe this information is and Australian organizations are not required to notify anyone if data is stolen. "Phishing" has ...

Fortis bank $19.5bn bail-out 'stabilises' FIA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... the savings of the bank's deposit holders - with Belgians making up half of Fortis' five million retail clients - will be "safe" under the bail-out program. But one of the conditions of the arrangement is that Fortis Bank will have to divest its existing ...

Aussies fear online fin services

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... to 4.2 million Australians - would never arrange any financial product online. The culprit is the notion of security: how safe is an online transaction compared to conventional pen and paper contracts? "Despite the introduction of more comprehensive ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower today after US stocks fell again as investors worried that the US congress was beginning to doubt the need for a government bailout of financial institutions as a way to revive credit markets. At ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market has received a negative lead from Wall Street, where volatility swept across the financial markets as doubts intensified over the US government's $US700 billion bailout of the banking sector. At 0744 AEST, the Sydney Futures ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... cents, or 3.41 per cent, to $4.24. Gold miners generally were higher, but recent sentiment that commodities are an investor-safe haven was misguided, Mr Morrow says. "To say that you can get safety in such a volatile thing as a commodity... that to me ...

Super cushions local asset managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... Australian managers such as NAB-owned MLC, Commonwealth Bank-owned Colonial First State and ANZ's joint venture with ING, are all "safe", according to banking analysts. "Australian banks are not in the same position as the US and European banks...Commonwealth ...

America on its knees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... dollar and perhaps into the euro. After the gold standard, the US dollar became the major means of exchange and was regarded a safe haven during periods of market upheaval. Now the safe haven is the one under attack, threatening the dominance of the ...