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Local councils set to recover more from Lehman

PIPER ALDERMAN RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
Local councils that invested in Lehman CDOs won a small victory this week after a court judgment that could allow them to recover more of their money back from the collapsed firm. The High Court has dismissed an appeal against the judgment of the Federal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
The Australian stock market has received positive leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street closing higher, metals prices stronger and oil prices firmer. At 0720 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 16 points ...

Greenspan put

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... represents a "canary in the mine" and could signal further upward movement in interest rates. When this happens, we'll have a problem Houston! Higher interest rates will raise the borrowing costs for all - for consumers, for businesses, for housing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
The Australian stock market has received mostly positive leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street finishing higher and precious and base metals prices firmer, although oil prices were weaker. At 0735 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June ...

Platinum snubs US healthcare reforms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
US healthcare reforms have not had a material impact on Platinum Asset Management's International Health Care fund portfolio, as the fund continue to target pharmaceutical stocks that benefit from Asia's growth. Bianca Elzinger, fund manager at Platinum ...

S&P backs Schroders team after departure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
Standard & Poor's has maintained its four-star rating on the Schroders Australian Equity fund following the resignation of senior portfolio manager Randal Jenneke. Jenneke worked at Schroders Investment Management Australia for nine years but resigned ...

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 ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... the headlines talk about the slumped in commodity prices (AFR) - oil in particular - as the US dollar rose as Greece's problem resurfaced. Does this make any sense at all? Perhaps. For speculators and day traders, that is. This offers them an opportunity ...

Risk commission debate heats up

RUTH LIEW AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... continue despite agreeing last year that commissions on superannuation products should be phased out. The FPA said the problem is that fee-for-advice payments on risk products could make life insurance too expensive for clients and argued that the miselling ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
America is zeroing in on China's weapon of mass destruction - the "overvalued renminbi". Yes Virginia, the US is drawing up battle plans as I write. According to Bloomberg, "Five senators including Charles Schumer of New York and Lindsey Graham of South ...