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SMSFs stockpiling cash, weighted to banks

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... financial assets. Dunn said there were two clear and distinct SMSF borrowing models in the market. The first was funds who had enough balance to leverage and had leapt into borrowing, investing 100% into property. The second group had taken a conservative ...

Complicating the simple

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... with only 5 days to go before D-day, a new twist has come to the fore in this suspenseful debt ceiling saga. It was bad enough that the Dems and the Reps could not see eye to eye. Now reports tell the story of Reps not agreeing among themselves. This ...

Coaching tips invigorate adviser roadshow

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... clinical depression and anxiety, and what to do about it. "Don't avoid the person," she said. "They are feeling isolated enough already. They need to be included and connected." The AFA national roadshow has been to Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and Brisbane ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... over raising the US's borrowing limit has rattled investors. If an agreement is not reached by August 2, the US won't have enough cash to pay all its bills and could default on its debt. Analysts say a US default would have a devastating effect on financial ...

They will deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... Democrats and Republicans would drag this out until the 11th hour hoping to get extra concessions from the other side." Sure enough Bloomberg reports today that, "The proposal for a $3.7 trillion debt-cutting plan praised by Obama is facing resistance ...

Earnings up but jobs cut at State Street

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... Institutional financial services firm State Street today announced a second quarter increase in earnings but that was not enough to save jobs with a further 850 positions to be cut. The global job cuts come as part of an "IT Transformation" program with ...

Growing SMA use hits education barrier

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... Trends analyst, said lack of information was the key barrier to adviser uptake. "Financial planners say they don't know enough about them," he said. "They understand the benefits of SMAs but they want to get more comfortable with the product structure ...

ESG failings impacting super investments

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
Lagging company responsibility for environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure is not being taken seriously enough, said the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), and super funds are noticing. Over half of ASX200 companies ...

US Fed hints at QE3

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... the policy makers renewed their pledge to hold interest rates exceptionally low for an extended period. The news was not enough to buoy markets rattled by Moody's downgrade of Ireland's credit rating to junk status. Grant Cullens, director of Global ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... points, or 1.79 per cent, to 4,563.5. NEW YORK - Hope that the Federal Reserve might consider more economic stimulus wasn't enough to keep bad news about Ireland from sinking US stocks. Ireland's government bonds were downgraded by ratings agency Moody's ...