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Let's party!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... with you Come on now." -Kool & the Gang The Fed has spoken and Wall Street liked what it heard for the party lives on. Oh yes, their taking away that US$600 billion extra shot on the punch bowl, but the punch bowl stays. So let's celebrate and have a ...

Any which way is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
Aren't we, Australians all, just lucky? We come back from loooong holiday and then wake up to another big move higher on Wall Street. If we, Australians all, came back to work a day earlier we would have felt differently about today for apart from watching ...

Great Southern case rages on

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Investors in a class action against failed agribusiness firm Great Southern live to fight another day after access to new documents has been approved. In a hearing held April 4, former Great Southern directors, Peter Patrikeos and Jeffrey Mews were ...

Accountants attack planners over naming rights

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
An industry turf war has erupted after accountants said they want the Federal Government to dump adviser requests to restrict the term 'financial planner'. The National Institute of Accountants (NIA) fired the first shots yesterday, saying moves to ...

Poor standard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Hey, what just happened? Isn't the US at risk losing its AAA credit rating... or not? It's only been two days since Standard & Poor's issued that grim warning and now, look ma, Wall Street's back and with a vengeance. Please pardon my gloating but I ...

Super funds turn to dark pools

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
Large superannuation funds are talking to bulk share-trading venue provider Liquidnet Australia to quietly deal in large blocks of equities, the broker said yesterday. At a press luncheon at Sydney's upmarket Rockpool restaurant, Liquidnet Australia ...

Thanks S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... revenues in government coffers. The US budget was able to turn a deficit running at 4.6 per cent of GDP in 1992 to a surplus - yes, a surplus - of 2.4 per cent of GDP back in 2000 as the economy expanded strongly following the 1990/91 recession. There ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... spooking the bejeesus out of you, me and Irene. Last night's action on Wall Street was all about sovereign debt once more. Yes, we heard the same old, same old worries over Europe but last night... last night it was all about the biggest economy in the ...

Australian Unity seals $120m debt

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
Australian Unity has completed its oversubscribed $100 million bond issue with the final allotment set at $120 million. The offer of unsecured notes, which started out as an $80 million fundraising, closed on April 8. Yesterday 1.2 million Australian ...

ASFA wants action on tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia is heading to Canberra to lobby the Federal Government over capital gains tax relief, association chief Pauline Vamos told a packed Sydney luncheon yesterday. The organisation wants continued tax ...