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December 25bps

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
While Wall Street looks far, far ahead on when its central bank would announce its first interest rate hike, Australians have only three weeks to go before they might see another one. With only a fortnight and a week to go, speculation have been ebbing ...

25 bps to win Melbourne Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
Two major Australian events are fast approaching - Melbourne Cup Day and the RBA Board meeting. With two weeks to go till 3 November, punters are already eagerly punting on either Viewed or Efficient to win and the RBA to lift interest rates by 25 or ...

FPs and accountants at odds on SMSF strategies

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
Financial planners are almost three times as likely than accountants to place self managed super fund (SMSF) clients on a platform, highlighting key differences in how the two professions are dealing with this booming market segment. The Investment ...

Show me the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
Remember Meredith? Meredith Whitney? Yes, that one. The 'mujer' who moved Wall Street during last quarter's reporting season. She's back in the headlines this reporting season. And if you believe the headlines, she is once more pulling Wall Street her ...

Shadow of a doubt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
Could it be that the shadow of doubt is slowly creeping back into market consciousness? Sure, Wall Street jumped last night but why didn't the justifications sound as convincing as say, back in the first half of the year, when green shoots were all ...

Vote of confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
Here we go again. News headlines are awash with reports - nay, warnings - that Australian interest rates are headed higher. Who else would you have expected to trigger all this but the moneyman himself, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glen Stevens. ...

Switching super funds on the rise: survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
The number of active super fund members looking to switch funds has risen over nine months to July, with the number of industry fund members thinking of changing funds almost doubling, a survey found. An Investment Trends report found the number of ...

Liquidity problem in unlisted assets overstated: RWA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
Liquidity is not a problem for most funds with high weightings to unlisted assets because they are protected by strong positive cashflows and most members are in the diversified default option. The criticism against unlisted valuation practices by retail ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
Overnight action on Wall Street was as boring as watching green shoots grow. As is typical in this stage of the cycle, the usual suspects - mixed economic data - caused the major US stock averages to bob up and bob down before closing narrowly higher ...

Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
"War is over, if you want it, want is over now" (John Lennon) Wall Street have resumed its upward trek after tripping some weeks back as number crunchers lowered company profit expectations and the dumping of warm bodies on the unemployment heap continued ...