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SPAA calls for fraud net to be cast wider

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals Association has called for greater investor protection against fraudulent investment schemes, proposing a levy on all product providers. SPAA is urging broader reforms around insurance and compensation measures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... compounded concerns over the world's biggest economy as well as the global outlook. The combination of the eurozone debt problem and Standard & Poor's downgrade led to frantic talks between financial chiefs and central bankers of the G7 and European ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
The Australian share market dropped sharply on the open as nervous investors reacted to Standard & Poor's historic weekend downgrade of US sovereign credit. At time of writing the All Ordinaries Index had fallen 66.1 points or 1.59% to 4103.6 while ...

US ceiling raised but underlying reasons remain

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... poor people from the workforce (if they have a job) to retirement, is the root cause of the US Government's current debt problem." Meanwhile, Dr. Michael Hasenstab, portfolio manager and co-director, international bonds, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
Australian shares remained around four per cent lower at noon as fears of a new global economic crisis gripped the local market. At 1200 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 168.7 points, or 3.94 per cent, at 4,107.8 while the broader ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... liabilities stemming largely from entitlement obligations. "It's the off-balance-sheet liabilities of US$60 trillion that's a problem," he said. "There's no way it's not going to end in more currency debasement and money printing and inflation." * For ...

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... intervention that brought it down to 79.22 yen from 77.00 yen - they're still broke. Not to mention, the high yen compounds its problem with deflation. Still there are reasons to be optimistic - or to be more precise, reasons to take a contrarian stance. ...

Market woes cause adviser headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... high levels of debt, owing $153.4 million in 2010, according to its annual report, but Spooner said this would not be a problem. "The income stream is not cyclical and their debt costs are hedged," he said. Invocare listed $643,000 in interest rate swap ...

Super funds to provide standard risk measure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
Under new guidelines announced by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia and the Financial Services Council, super funds will provide a 'standard risk measure' as of June 22, 2012. The standard measure estimates the number of negative ...

Debt and small caps broaden emerging market value

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... investors should have at least a neutral weighting, or 14% of equities allocated to them, which could result in a capacity problem. According to the IMF, a 1% shift in global equity and debt holdings implies a roughly $475 billion shift to emerging markets. ...