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Gold is hip again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
Hang on to your hats... volatility has returned. We're in trouble again! And you know we're in trouble if that metal whose main use is to adorn the ears, noses, fingers and arms -- and for some, even unmentionable parts of the body -- starts making ...

When old news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... improving" and that "the recovery is on track." He also repeated view that using the phrase "extended period" has put the Fed in a "box". Read, we better stop promising free money or it may blow up in our faces. This one from another Charles, Philadelphia ...

Where movies and finance come together

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
Want to bet which Hollywood movie will top the blockbuster list next? Then get ready to trade Domestic Box Office Receipt (DBOR) Movie Futures on the Cantor Exchange. US-based Cantor Exchange expects to receive the final approval for the movie futures ...

ASIC enforces AFSLs for margin lenders

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Issuers and advisers of margin lending facilities will have five months to apply for a mandatory Australian Financial Services license - or face closing shop. Existing margin lenders and advisers on margin loans must apply to ASIC for an AFSL authorisation ...

Yamashita's treasure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) or stock certificates are easy to fold and store under the bed, in a cookie jar or in a safety deposit box. But how do you store tonnes of gold? You pay a warehouse or a vault to store and guard them. Ahh...yes! That's it! ...

The downside of Ripoll

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... country. "You will get this drift of independent advisers joining the big banks and this [fiduciary duty] could become a tick-the-box exercise," he said. He said the unintended consequence of Ripoll's recommendations is that it would jack up what are ...

IOSCO to impose new rule on FoHFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... invested, how they're managing it and their due diligence process," he said. "It's going to mean the people with the black box that won't tell you anything and charge three and 30 - good luck to fresh money from institutional investors."

Credit Suisse launches all-round fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
Credit Suisse is ticking all the boxes for financial planning clients looking to re-enter investment markets with a capital protection product that provides exposure to Australian shares, resources stocks and Chinese securities. The Credit Suisse Performance ...

AXA maintains 2012 planner recruitment target

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... blood is through the AXA Financial Planning's start-up business offer. It is a proposition that is based on the "business in a box concept" and targeted towards salaried advisers particularly in their mid-30s, who have outgrown the salary model and would ...

IOSCO warns against structured products

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... not buy it," the report warns. It said due diligence is and must remain a value-added process and must never become a plain box-ticking process. "Due diligence is generally a three step, and iterative process, which is structured around the understanding ...