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The January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
Where's the January effect when you need it most? Wikipedia describes this stock market phenomenon best: "The January effect is the tendency of the stock market to rise between December 31 and the end of the first week in January. There are many theories ...

Nicholas-Applegate's 130/30 gets nod

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management has won overseas recognition for its Global Equity 130/30 strategy. The fund manager's Global Equity 130/30 strategy, which is offered in both segregated account and mutual fund formats and available to Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower after US stocks fell as earnings season looms. At 0751 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March Share Price Index futures contract was down 57 points at 3,618. In economic news today, the Manpower-Melbourne ...

Financial Standard returning soon in 2009

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The Financial Standard daily email newsletters will be returning soon. In the meantime, we wish all our readers a prosperous New Year, or at least a better one than 2008, and we hope you had a great and restful Christmas. Our daily news will start again ...

Same super rules for same sex couples

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The government has introduced new superannuation rules that will address what has long been viewed as discrimination against same-sex de facto couples when it came to superannuation death benefits. Under existing Commonwealth superannuation and pension ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
After a flat start the Australian share market was in the red at noon, as falling banking stocks capped gains in the resources sector. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 33 points, or 0.91 per cent, at 3,598.6, while the broader All ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
'Tis the season to be jolly. Christmas has arrived early for equity investors. Or has it? Stock markets around the world rallied between 5 and 8 per cent yesterday and overnight, punctuated by the Dow's peeping above the 9,000 mark in intra-day trade ...

Frontier hires analyst

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
Frontier Investment Consulting hired hedge fund researcher, Ching Lee as an analyst. Lee previously worked at Shadforth Financial Group/Haintz Financial Services as an analyst and prior that appointment as a research assistant at Monash University analysing ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
It's official. The US is - or has been - in recession since December 2007. Now what? The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that America's economy entered recession one year ago, despite not ...

Passport to profit

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
Securitor is taking the profitability of its 462 planners' business seriously - the dealer group has launched a new "Passport to Profit" program to fine-tune four areas of its members' business structures to improve their bottom lines. Neil Younger ...