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Fear is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
Wall Street dropped big time overnight. Thank goodness for that. The S&P 500 index closed 1.8% lower last night. This is the biggest daily fall since the 2.4% drop registered on 7/11/2012 - the time when markets were neck-deep with worries. At the time ...

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012

Fund managers out-invest school kids

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
At this year's ASX Schools Sharemarket Games, the 60,000 participating school students showed that they have only half the skill of professionals investment managers. The results should come as welcome relief to managed funds investors throughout Australia ...

CORRECTION: FT loses international prop manager

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
Franklin Templeton Investments' international property co-portfolio manager, Boris Pialloux, has left the firm prompting S&P Fund Services to place its three-star ratings Franklin International Property Fund and Property Income Fund on hold. Global ...

Macq predicts SG to top 9pc

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... a traditional protected loan enhanced with a couple of other features that were previously inhibited in this space," said Pia Cooke, associate director of Macquarie Equity Markets Group. The current MQ LPL offer will commence listing on the Australian ...

PIS names Singapore head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
Financial advisory giant, Professional Investment Services (PIS), has appointed Ian Frost as chief executive of the firm's Singapore subsidiary. Frost has more 20 years experience in financial services and retail distribution holding roles at AXA Life ...

Challenger rejigs platform team

... fresh appointments in its platform distribution team, hiring new staff who were previously at BT, Asgard and Credit Suisse. Pia Zulueta, formerly at Asgard Wealth Solutions, is the new head of distribution and client services, taking over Christine Jones ...

Macq banks on appetite for gearing into super

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2007
... also investments that will help to meet their clients' long-term investing goals," said Macquarie's Equity Markets Group's Pia Cooke. "MFIs provide an attractive solution to this issue as they are one of the few ways in which SMSFs can gear into managed ...

Dutton allows warrants back on SMSF menu

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
... and the ATO believed they were a form of borrowing, and thus not allowed. Macquarie Equity Markets Group associate director, Pia Cooke, welcomed the decision, saying, "It (the announcement) provides clarity for all self managed superannuation funds ...

Buy into a fund now, pay half later: Macq

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
... number of investors seeking ways to gain leveraged exposure to these funds, particularly using limited recourse loans," said Pia Cooke, senior manager, Macquarie Equity Markets Group. Essentially the Macquarie MFI program allows investors to gear their ...