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Liar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... decision." The prime minister has already increased taxes, cut spending and reduced/frozen wages in efforts to trim the country's budget deficit to 8.7 per cent of GDP this year and promised more austerity measures to bring the deficit back to within ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... got a boost from a jump in sales of existing homes last month. Earlier, investors were rattled by news about Greece. The country's borrowing costs surged again when Europe's statistics agency found that Greece's budget deficit last year was even larger ...

India Equities puts cash to work

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... increased its exposure to the Indian finance sector by including Allahabad Bank into the portfolio as its tilt to the country's energy sector falls. The fund has more than $71 million invested across 58 Indian equities. An investment report from the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
... announced it was dispatching a team of experts to Greece at the request of authorities to discuss a possible loan, moving the country a step closer to becoming the first eurozone nation to get an IMF bailout. There was also bad news from the latest US ...

Time to grow: Securitor

MICHELLE BALTAZAR IS A MEDIA GUEST OF THIS YEAR'S SECURITOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE.  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
Securitor, one of the largest financial planning groups in the country, maps out a growth strategy that will prepare its planners ahead of industry consolidation, tougher regulation and the nation's seismic $400 billion wealth transfer over the next ...

Social Impact Property fund takes wings

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... years), SIA is increasing asset ownership in the community sector which in turn strengthens the social fabric in this country."

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... politically and socially unworkable, with the debt accord a holding operation in the hope growth will return to resolve the country's problems. Meanwhile, results overnight from US aluminium giant Alcoa fell short of market forecasts, disappointing investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... announcements of two big deals. European leaders agreed over the weekend to make loans available to Greece to help the country lower its public debt burden. The 16 countries that use the euro agreed to provide $US40.5 billion ($A43.27 billion) in loans ...

Aus equities FMs target solid result stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... earnings growth in the next 18 months, some companies will come through with it and some won't." Meanwhile, one of the country's top-performing Aussie equities managers, Ausbil Dexia, took the additional approach of broadening their investment universe. ...

Enviable problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... previous month and only 4 per cent in March 2008. What increased the fear factor was that most forecasters predicted that the country's jobless rate would not stop climbing until it hit double-digits. I typed 'most' because our Financial Standard Intelligence ...