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Bassanese backs Aus eqs and LPTs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Pennywise Investment, an exchange traded fund (ETF) specialist developed by economist David Bassanese, is keeping an overweight position in Australian equities and local listed property, despite some experts saying the market is overvalued. Bassanese ...

AXA tackles longevity risk with North

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
AXA Australia is targeting investor longevity risk with plans to launch another North product that provides a guaranteed income stream next year. The product, still in development stage, provides the flexibility of an allocated pension, which keeps ...

Seniors are tech savvy: survey

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
Super funds may want to rethink how they communicate to older Australians after a survey found 96 per cent of those over the age of 50 own a mobile phone and a similar number use SMS. A National Seniors Australia survey of more than 2,700 Australians ...

Christmas comes early for job seekers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
Investment professionals who lost their jobs last year can take some comfort in the fact that 14 per cent of Australian firms plan to take on more staff in the lead up to Christmas. Planners and fund managers who faced the axe this time last year due ...

Financial Standard finalist in ACSI Media Award

Financial Standard journalist Michael Hobbs was the runner-up at this year's Australian Council of Super Investors (ACSI) Media Award, an award that recognises outstanding work on reporting corporate governance issues. Hobbs' submission, "Cents and ...

Europe fails at fee disclosure

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
The European fund industry is failing the fees transparency test - while Australian fund managers are facing their own woes when it comes to unbundling fund costs, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. According to the "Ideal Fund - Reengineering the ...

Macquarie buys investment bank FPK

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... research, execution and advice and build their underwriting capacity," said Bishop. "The combination will take our combined FIG research offering to 765 stocks globally and double the stock coverage universe in our growing US and European securities ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket was patchy at noon, with the key indices down but strong gold and oil prices boosting resource stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 19.2 points, or 0.4 per cent, at 4724.4, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

SMSFs snap up blue chip shares

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
Self-managed super fund trustees are now placing blue chip shares on the top of their buying list after brushing off last year's market carnage, research shows. With markets on an upward trajectory and investor sentiment turning towards the positive ...

The invisible issue in super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
Elizabeth Broderick, sex discrimination commissioner, has criticised the Henry Review and Harmer Pension Review for failing to address the superannuation gap for women. Speaking at the Sydney Institute, Broderick, who is also commissioner responsible ...