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Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Has sentiment on Wall Street really, truly changed to positive? Or have financial markets only engaged in an Easter egg hunt for positive news? Read the post-Easter headlines and no matter where you look, financial markets are celebrating not only the ...

Fundie backs strategy with own nest egg

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
The Australian fund manager behind one of T. Rowe Price's global equities strategy gives 'skin in the game' serious meaning when he poured all of his retirement savings into it. His parents are putting some money, too. Scott Berg, the Canberra-born ...

Thanks for now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... started our tightening campaign." Thank you. Yes Virginia, you and I should give thanks for all these. Our retirement nest egg is growing again. Everything is falling in their rightful place - at least for now. Risk assets would continue to benefit while ...

Pushing on a string

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009

How to survive the next market outlier

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
After the GFC challenged the prevailing wisdom on how low markets can go, AXA's chief investment officer Mark Dutton tells investors how to protect their savings from another market armaggedon. When it comes to investing, Dutton said there are two golden ...

The dragon stumbles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
... reserves and increase tax on stock market trades. Are they kidding? Why would Beijing want to kill the goose laying the golden egg? Why now? When eggs that could be harvested in other parts of the world are just a pale shade of gold? Why would it let ...

Super changes hit retirees

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... opportunity to maximise their super has now gone, with many having to look at opportunities outside super to build up a nest egg." Currently there are over 400,000 self managed super funds (representing about 800,000 people) - that is one in six working ...

SPAA reloads for 2009

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... appointed Peter Burgess as the association's technical director. Burgess will work two days a week at SPAA. The association's 'egg' advertising campaign is also under review. Colley said SPAA is assessing how effective an online advertising campaign ...

Sunsuper cuts fees, adds FP service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... balances over $700,000 still have no fees. "Our aim is to help our pension members maximise the size of their retirement nest egg and as a profit-for-members fund we will pass on any cost savings in the form of lower fees," said Tony Lally, Sunsuper ...

HNW shell shocked about nest eggs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
A Fujitsu survey found high net wealth Australians are seven times more concerned now about their retirement savings than they were a few months ago as equity markets continue to crack their nest eggs. Martin North, Fujitsu managing director of consulting ...