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Planners to face cashflow crunch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... interest bill on bank loans, Arnold urges them to speak to their bank sooner than later. "We've been doing work in recent times where we're trying to get in touch with them pro-actively. The worst thing for us is if they come to us when it's too late ...

Investors turn to ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... during the year. "Global ETF assets fell by only 10.8 per cent in the past 12 months, in contrast to a fall of almost four times that amount or 42.1 per cent in the MSCI World Index," highlighted Seccombe. Based on data collated by Thomson Reuters, both ...

CommBank's 64,245 margin calls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... market. According to the CommBank's analysts briefing, the bank made 64,245 margin calls in the half, up three and half times the number of margin calls made in the previous six months. Calls requiring forced sales also increased one third from about ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... cheapest super fund if your returns are low. The gap between returns of the best and worst performing funds is now twenty times what you'll pay in fees," he said.

Storm takes fight online

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... not liquidators have seized their private jet. "Do you feel let down by the banks who were willing to back you in the good times and have now deserted you?" asked Fyoder on the website. The query receives this response; "In the main, it was the CBA that ...

No mandate terminations: Hostplus

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... actively looking to appoint any new investment mandates in 2009, but neither is it terminating any of its current managers. "In times like these, it's better and faster to enter the market if you need to, by simply investing in trusted partners," he ...

HCL pushes governance practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... applications, but maintaining so many different unusual incidences or types of applications is a big challenge," he said. "In good times you could actually deal with all these applications, but I think in tough times I don't think you can live with it ...

Online super reclaims lost accounts

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... unclaimed super," he said. "As younger investors, most of them would've had multiple jobs or moved house at least a few times - we were bound to track down something." The super fund's strategy has become a hit with members. "I received a call from individuum ...

Focus on the good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... ever there was one single piece of good news for the equity market, this is the one. Like in very other recession, the hard times force companies to shed the fat in their organizations and come out at the other side leaner and meaner. Sure there are ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... on Wednesday as investors took their cue from better-than-expected US data, with some analysts sensing resilience in hard times for the world's biggest economy. London's FTSE 100 index rose 64.14 points, or by 1.54 per cent, to 4,228.6. FRANKFURT - Germany's ...