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INQ buys HUB24 for $20 million

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... custodial and depository services for investors. It has 23 model managers, the largest offering of SMA managers in the country, and offers users a combination of a wrap platform and a managed discretionary account service. Under the terms of the agreement ...

Top fund CEOs join climate change panel

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... change policy, including the design of a carbon price in Australia. The panel includes Ian Silk, of AustralianSuper, the country's largest industry superannuation fund, and Mark Lazberger, of Colonial First State Global Asset Management, the country's ...

QE2 still the main game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... dictates a weaker currency to balance this. It has ultra low interest rates. Fin 101 says funds would flow out of the country seeking higher yields elsewhere. Result. Weaker currency. And then we have the grand daddy of them all. QE2. Yes, print more ...

Singapore makes $8.4bn grab for ASX

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... consigned to being merely a divisional office of the Singapore exchange. This could be viewed as yet another step in the country's descent into a "branch office economy". The unique status of the ASX means that, according to section 850C of the Financial ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... suggested limiting current account imbalances to four per cent of GDP. This was shot down from the get go. Easy for a deficit country like America to propose but no one at the table really expected trade surplus countries like China, Japan, Germany or ...

Bottoms up

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
Investors who view the world in macro terms often intuitively base their approach on a country's economic fundamentals. But new research suggests economic fundamentals may have little bearing on the performance of a country's stockmarket. According ...

UK fast tracks pension reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... slashed from 255,000 to 55,000 per annum. The government hopes to save 5 billion a year through the reforms to resolve the country's fiscal imbalances. The UK's 2009/10 deficit stood at 11.4 per cent of GDP, with the national debt over 70 per cent of ...

CFS GAM makes a case for raising govt debt

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... projects that boost productivity. Improved infrastructure to transport goods, services, capital and labour around the country could help the economy deal with surging demand for exports, and a rising terms of trade, Halmarick said, indirectly keeping ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
For a while there I thought that October would just sail past smoothly - just like this year's September proved that it is not always the worst month for equities. Disappointment was all over Wall Street overnight - big time with its tree major stock ...