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Big Sky to aid BHP staff

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
Big Sky Financial Solutions plans to provide general and personal financial advice to those members of its parent credit union affected by BHP Billiton mine closures. Paul Evans, Big Sky Financial Solutions director, said the financial planning division ...

ASIC extends short selling ban till March

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
ASIC has extended the ban on covered short selling of financial stocks until 6 March, opposing the move of its UK counterpart FSA, which lifted its shorting ban last week. The regulator is concerned about lifting the ban after the Financial Services ...

Legalsuper members favour Aussie shares

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
Defying the flight to cash, members of the $1 billion dollar legalsuper have increased investments into the fund's S&P/ASX200 option by up to 40 per cent. According to legalsuper, the industry fund experienced nearly 40 per cent in growth for its S&P/ASX200 ...

Self-fulfilling prophecy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
Media coverage of Australia's employment statistics had been unanimously negative. But is it? The ink has barely dried on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report for December 2008 when headlines flashed one after another about ...

Aussie tech providers score overseas deals

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
Australian based wealth management administration providers Bravura and Praemium have scored international deals that will see the firms export their services to Vietnam and the UK respectively. Bravura signed a $5.8 million agreement with one of Vietnam's ...

Cognacs and chocolates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
In spite of the best wishes for good tidings for the New Year, sorrows and trouble abound. The global financial crisis shows no signs of abating. The global economic future looks glum. Yet Americans are unable to afford their usual psychological crutches ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
The Australian share market was marginally higher this morning, with the market relieved housing finance data for November had met expectations. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 7.8 points, or 0.21 per cent, at 3,662.4, and the broader ...

North awarded 'very strong' S&P rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
AXA Australia's highly popular structured product, North, received a 'very strong' rating from Standard & Poor's. Launched in December 2007, AXA North provides 50 different investment options with the guarantee. The product was later enhanced to include ...

Right on target: Vanguard

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Investors can avoid the pitfalls of emotion-driven investing through target-date funds, according to research from Vanguard. The Vanguard Centre for Retirement Research in the US published a report in November last year that surveyed the portfolios ...

Beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... small graces. What about the unemployment rate? Australia's unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percent to 4.4 per cent in November - a one-year high. One-year high! I can hear other major economies saying, 'we'll have what Australia's having.' The rate of ...