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Danger everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... safe in gold or other commodities either. And equities? Look up young man! Look at the above paragraphs and it would be enough to scare your pants off. Cash is safe... maybe, if you can live with zero per cent and expect that no inflation to erode your ...

FPA defends turf, looks to HNW

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... power in Parliament over the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms, but was not sure whether the reforms were a big enough issue for any of them to cross the floor over. Tony McDonald, managing director of Snowball Group, told advisers that they ...

Me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... quote Westpac halving its third quarter real GDP growth forecast from 0.6 per cent to 0.3 per cent. And if that's not bad enough, it also printed that ANZ Bank predicts no growth at all. This is a very, very, very substantial decline from the 1.2 per ...

Better than a Thanksgiving turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... goes world growth. As if speculation that world growth would go away if (others say when) Chinese growth slows was not enough, the Fed was more forthright, it was more explicit in lowering America's growth forecast for 2011 and raising its prediction ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... killing at least two South Korean marines. Shares also fell in Europe on concerns that a bailout of Ireland may not be enough to contain a regional debt crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 1.27 per cent. "If you look at the overseas ...

Fund manager challenges 'avoid' rating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... revolves around price. "Charging a performance fee on top of a wholesale base fee that's not below-average is discouraging enough. "But Challenger compounded matters by resetting the high watermark after appointing the new team. This is very disappointing ...

More voice needed in policy debate: AustralianSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
Super funds controlling Australia's $1.3 trillion retirement savings have not played a strong enough role in policy debates and need to lift their game, said the chief of the country's largest industry fund. Ian Silk, chief executive of the $33 billion ...

Direct property makes a comeback

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... fund does not have any exposure to A-REITs. He said that in the asset allocation process, REITs did not necessarily offer enough of a difference to ordinary equities. "Why would it be REITs, why not tech, or resources? What's so special about REITs when ...

ISN renews push for 12pc SG

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... people tending to spend a big proportion in short term consumption, adequacy needs to be up to scratch to ensure there is enough left over to supplement income in the many years of retirement that lie ahead," Whiteley continued. He dismissed concerns ...

Cormann blasts ALP over default super

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... to be controversial. Industry funds are also in the lead for fees and standard insurance rates unless companies are big enough to negotiate customised deals, according Rainmaker's 2010 Group Insurance and Super Fund Fee surveys. The Institute of Public ...