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Zenith expands research team

NEWS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Zenith Investment Partners has added two analysts to its research team in response to its growing business pipeline. The Melbourne-based researcher said the new hires were made to enhance the services it provides to existing clients, to address client ...

Planners sidelined for self-investing strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
New research from CMC Markets found that the amount of money an investor would allocate to global equities depends on which generation they belong, and that day traders are less inclined to ask "experts" for stock advice. According to a survey of 500 ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
"Eat my shorts!" (Bart Simpson). Those who continue to hold a dim view of the Australian economy are fast dwindling. More have fallen by the wayside yesterday after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released another "beautiful set of numbers." ...

MMC pays $428 million in compensation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... kickbacks known as "contingent commissions". According to the complaint, in some instances Marsh even generated fake bids to shield participating insurance carriers from competition and the alleged scheme violated numerous laws, noted the statement. ...

Mickey money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
Walt Disney lives up to its reputation - that of cheering up depression. But is Wall Street now playing with Mickey Mouse Money? Walt Disney, with a little help from its friends - JC Penney and Abercrombie & Fitch Co -brightened Wall Street's sombre ...

Depends on the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... hike this year. After all exports accounts for around 20 per cent of our economy. Note that the weak currency also helped shield Australia from the full impact of the GFC. The A$'s weakness made imported goods and services so expensive, we were forced ...

Fed brawn, RBA brains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
Days like these, I should have stayed in bed a bit longer. For this is one of those days when overnight action on Wall Street offered no adrenaline hit to my system. Will have to settle for three coffee cups this morning. The S&P slipped 0.3 per cent ...

Healthcare, utilities and EMs top FM list

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009

No proof lack of regulation caused GFC: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
Just because the GFC happened doesn't mean it was caused by a lack of regulation, said a senior APRA executive in a major speech this week. "Just because one event follows another does not mean that the first event caused the second event," explained ...

Hunter Hall says sorry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... raised the group's cash allocation from 8 per cent to 20 per cent - or $500 million. However, even that wasn't enough to shield the fund from as much as a 40 per cent loss on its flagship product, Value Growth Trust. He said there were two reasons why ...