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Introducing foreclosure-gate, the latest risk to a US recovery

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... potentially reducing the value of investments held by Australian institutions in related assets. Court rulings across the country have found that millions of securitized mortgages were foreclosed on without the necessary documentation being in place ...

Rise of in-house fund mgmt a game changer

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... And despite the decline in FUM stemming from QSuper's shift, with $51.6 billion under management, QIC remains one of the country's ten largest fund managers as of June 30th, according to data complied by Rainmaker Information. The fund manager has over ...

Grand currency sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010

Australia's big bro

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... the expiration of the UK's 99-year lease on the territory. Many, if not most, Hongkongers made arrangements to exit the country before China takes over. Many, if not most, Hongkongers applied for immigration into other countries - mainly to the United ...

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
It's a wrap! It's official! September 2010 is the man! Wall Street may have been down for the day but it produced the best September gain even before many of us were born. The S&P 500 index soared by 8.8 per cent in the month, the Dow jumped by 7.7 ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... others call a filthy habit could be the answer to Japan's weakening economy. There's a tobacco rush happening in Japan. The country's smokers are hoarding as many cartons of the "good stuff" (for us smokers, at least) as they could before 1 October when ...

AMP appoints business partnership manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... background in financial services, most recently with Westpac, and prior to that with Bendigo Bank. He was lead state banker at Country Business Direct. Country Business Direct is Westpac's national contact centre for agriculture and small businesses. ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... have joined the race to the bottom. And what do you get when currencies are becoming worthless pieces of paper? Whichever country wins, nobody wins. But gold will continue to shine for as long as the race is on.

Rediscovering our Indian Ocean character

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
Australia needs to quickly rediscover its Indian Ocean character and not only consider itself a "Pacific" country, according to a leading investment strategist. In a wide ranging interview with the Financial Standard, Capetown-based Investec strategist ...

Industry assoc review goals and growth

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... that matter, having multiple associations is not necessarily a bad thing and reflects the democracy of the industry and country, argue experts. "I can see the reason for some of the smaller specialised organisations to exist," said Reynolds. "Some associations ...