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Clinton plans pension system overhaul

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007
Senator Hillary Clinton has announced plans for a new pension scheme, which takes a leaf out of the Australian superannuation system, as part of her 2008 presidential election campaign. Senator Clinton's American Retirement Accounts (ARA) plan will ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2007
The Australian share market hit intraday highs again today, with BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto pushing the bourse higher. At 1208 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 22 points to 6760.3 and the All Ordinaries lifted 23.7 points to 6768.3 - both ...

Having another crack at online mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2007
As business models go, one of the all-time worst may be selling home loans on the internet. Countless online mortgage companies have come and gone. The big banks with active direct mortgage sales arms report that the contribution those businesses make ...

AMPFP appoints new product director

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
AMP Financial Services (AMPFS) has appointed Paul Sainsbury, currently chief operating officer for financial planning, advice and services, as director of product manufacturing, replacing Craig Meller, who has been promoted to managing director of financial ...

Little fish and the big picture

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
The past five weeks has given some investors a classic lesson in the difficulty of timing markets. Expectations of more bad news saw the bears in a sell-off before being forced to buy back in as shares rebounded - a turn around that has enabled shares ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
The Australian sharemarket remained stronger at noon, with the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 again knocking on the door of record highs. At 1203 AEST, the S&P/ASX200 index was up 54.7 points to 6412.6 and the All Ordinaries had found 54.4 points to 6425.6. ...

AMP names new chief

AMP appointed the head of its largest division as the successor to long-time chief executive Andrew Mohl. Craig Dunn, the current managing director of AMP Financial Services, will be the new chief executive effective 1 January next year, after seven ...

AXA survey dispels retiree myth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2007
The latest AXA retirement study has found that three out of four retirees who described themselves as defensive investors actually wanted a more aggressive investment strategy with a bias towards growth assets. The AXA investor trends report surveyed ...

Credit crunch driving recession fears

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
The US sub-prime crisis is stretching its tentacles across the globe and is starting to reach mortgage borrowers as far afield as Australia and in the UK. Not because these countries have a sub-prime problem per se but because the US wholesale credit ...

Sub-prime 20/20 hindsight

Alan Greenspan, former Fed chief and financial guru, the man who can rock Wall Street with a throwaway line, has admitted he didn't smell the sup-prime coffee during his tenure as Federal Reserve Chairman. Greenspan ran the central bank for more than ...