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Our fearful trip is done

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting..." Walt Whitman wrote this poem after US President Abraham Lincoln's assassination on 14 April 1865. Nearly one and half century later, RBA Governor Glen Stevens could have used ...

Campbell wins 2009 AFA Adviser of the Year

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... provides advice across personal risk insurance, superannuation and investments. The award was judged by Jim Taggart, AFA president; Philip Kewin, Zurich national sales manager of life risk; Marc Fabris, Zurich strategic marketing manager; Graham Peatey ...

Macquarie buys investment bank FPK

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... consideration will be paid in cash, a portion of which will be deferred over four years following financial close. Tim Bishop, president and chief executive of Macquarie Capital (USA), said combining the FPK team was the "ideal way" to expand the firm's ...

AFA announces Adviser of the Year finalists

... advisers and their clients, giving even better reason to acknowledge those that excel in their field. Jim Taggart, AFA president, described the finalists as "outstanding" and were handpicked from a record number of nominations this year. Last year, AFA ...

CFA appoints Gunasingham as president

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
CFA Society of Sydney (CFAS) has elected Brindha Gunasingham, CFA to the role of president of the board. Gunasingham's term begins immediately. She will succeed Olivia Engel, CFA who served as president since August 2007. CFAS has also announced Richard ...

Beware the leveraged ETF

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
... have lost their fortunes trading leveraged ETFs - products that could one day hit Australian shores. Michael Krause, president of ETF research house AltaVista Research, said one of the most popular ETF products to hit the market a year ago was leveraged ...

Yin to market yang

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... strikes against equities getting ahead of themselves become more common in the US and Europe, a sentiment reinforced by US president Barack Obama this week when he pushed for financial reforms to help avoid a repeat of last year's GFC. Not that Power ...

Three wise men - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... central banker. He warned that, "it's still going to feel like a very weak economy for some time." A similar refrain from President Obama when he told his Bloomberg interviewer that he doesn't "think we're out of the woods yet... "What we have to be ...

Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... longer and downward sloping. Trust politicians to try fix economies and they're sure to muck it up. What's gotten to US President Obama? In one word and three numbers - Section 421. Section 421 of the Trade Act of 1974 (China-Specific Safeguards) specifies ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... reversed. We may be seeing 'what happens' happening now. Illegal immigrants in the US and the Republicans are attacking President Obama's proposal to overhaul America's health care system as part of efforts to rein in government spending and return the ...