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Basis Capital suspends yield fund

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... Poor's. An adviser with clients' money invested in the fund speculated that the lenders to the fund (its assets are geared 1.5 times) had issued a margin call. By the adviser's reckoning before the June fall Basis had 79 per cent of its assets invested ...

Good times keep rolling for ASX funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
The resources boom and one-off gains from merger and acquisition activity underpinned the fourth consecutive year of above-20 per cent returns for the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), with the market benchmark posting a heady 29.2 per cent, said ...

Economic round-up: Umbrellas up, ice creams down

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2007

Sg CPF increases min member limits

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
... superannuation funds this financial year. However, CPF contribution rates at 33 per cent are more than three and a half times Australia's 9 per cent contribution rate.

State Street's 130/30 funds gain $10bn Edge

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
... with former Securities and Exchange Commission investment division head Barry P. Barbash, recently quoted in the New York Times saying "funds using this strategy seem to be multiplying almost daily." Managing director of global equities at SSgA, Arlene ...

Economic round up: savings follow interest rates

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2007
... consumers shouldering a record debt of just over A$3 trillion. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling told the Financial Times that he is concerned that Britons who took out two-year fixed rate mortgages in 2005 at 4.5 per cent, will be ill prepared ...

CommBank stays with EDS

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2007
The Commonwealth Bank has had difficulties with its information technology service provider EDS at times during their 10 year relationship, but all that was put to one side when the bank and the technology services company renewed their vows for another ...

Creative products will meet aged consumers' needs: Asteron

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2007
Last week's census results showing that the number of people aged 85 years and over increased more than five times the rate of the overall population means it's time wealth managers got creative in designing products specifically for these consumers ...

DSTi helps dealer groups audit easy

Financial services solutions provider DST International (DSTi) is making it easier for financial companies to track changes made to client records after the group expanded the Database Audit Module of its HiPortfolio/3 product. The feature enables the ...

Check pay before shifting OS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... city for the fifth year running. According to the survey, Moscow scores 134.4 against the index and is over two-and-a-half times costlier than Asuncion, which has an index of 50. "Even so, the gap between the world's most and least expensive cities appears ...