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Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Whoa boy! Hold your horses! QE2 expectations are going out of hand. It started with just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller ...

MLC stars in NAB $4.2bn profit

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
NAB's acquisition of Aviva, double digit insurance premiums growth and improved investment markets have helped MLC and NAB Wealth become key contributors to the bank's $4.2 billion net profit this year. NAB announced this morning a 19.3 per cent increase ...

HOSTPLUS unveils new TV ads

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Industry fund HOSTPLUS has launched a new advertising campaign to attract more members to its fund. The campaign will include a series of three television commercials (TVCs), the first of which went to air this week. The ads will focus on an emotional ...

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... interest rates next week. It always baffles me when financial markets speculate on central banks' decisions based on one figure and a dated one at that. If it were this simple, anyone could be a central banker. Inflation more than expected, raise interest ...

Australians willing to pay just $300 for advice

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... cost just $300 upfront - almost 10 times less what planners say is the break-even cost of providing full advice, and a figure planners are calling "completely unrealistic". New research from Investment Trends' Planner Business Report show Australians ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading over the weekend, with equities markets in the US, Asia and Europe mixed, oil and base metals higher, but precious metals eased. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0627 AEDT, the December ...

AMP, AXA and CFS planners choose own super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
AMP, AXA and Colonial First State planners channel the most sales into their parent firms' superannuation products out of six major planning groups, new research shows. According to new figures from Roy Morgan, which researched nearly 5,700 super products ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received strongly positive leads from offshore trading overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0630 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was 32 points higher at 4,664 points. In economics news on Thursday ...

Rising tide lifts hedge funds in September

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
Despite failing to match the performance of benchmark indices in September, Australian and international hedge funds are out in front, year to date, and on a rolling 12-month basis, new figures show. According to the Australian Fund Monitors Hedge Fund ...

Aussie fund managers outside top 100

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Despite having the world's fourth largest investment market to source funding from, Australian fund managers have once again failed to crack the world's top 100, new figures show. According to a study conducted by Towers Watson and Pension & Investments ...