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Fraud adviser banned for life

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... services regulator ASIC to investigate. ASIC discovered Bean, of St Peters, South Australia, had acted dishonestly and had broken financial services laws. He plundered more than $3 million from the superannuation and investment accounts of eight clients ...

Building a compelling case for direct property

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... of a real estate asset. "Australia has one of the most professional property industries in the world. The system wasn't broken [during the GFC] on the valuation side, so why question the numbers?, he asked. The GFC shake-out was instead due to the failure ...

Proposed reforms could hurt insurance levels: AFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... consumers against the financial impact of death or disaster and to resist tinkering with a remuneration system which is not broken," Klipin said. He said underinsurance levels were now chronic, citing a Lifewise/NATSEM report released last February that ...

Move beyond benchmarks: GMO

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... volatility was low, and sell risky assets in early 2009 when volatility was high, he said. "Well congratulations you've just broken the most basic rule of investing, because you are now buying high and selling low," he said. Montier acknowledged that ...

QE2 is Gold(ilocks)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... household spending would lift business sales and profits. Businesses invest in productive capacity including staff. What was broken will be made whole again. And it is this that the Fed wants to achieve with its 3 November largesse - not too big to spook ...

Super tax breaks unaffordable: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... increasing complexity and inequities of the current tax mix, it said. It added, however, "The tax and retirement system is not broken, but it is fragile and needs renovation to address current and future pressures." This agenda should be based on the ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... support the economic recovery." That's why Wall Street is happy. And so they should be. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the US stock market is in for a treat whatever the Fed does. If it decides to implement a second round of asset purchases ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... moment. Just think. Isn't it also possible that given the bounty Australia is experiencing at present time - the drought has broken, commodity prices are high, China's still buying, house prices continue to rise, employers are hiring - that Australians ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... had a pretty good run," he said. "It seems like only weeks ago we couldn't get past the 4,500 point level and now we've broken through that resistance. "There's some profit-taking today, but not a massive pullback. "Materials are down about 0.9 per cent ...

Global and Asian mandates up for grabs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... around $52 million to fund managers with specialties in the Asia Pacific and emerging markets. However, the mandate will be broken into two lots. The first will pertain to the Pacific Basin (ex-Japan) equity portfolio, and the second one an emerging ...