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Club Plus overhauls Aussie eq

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
The $1.3 billion industry fund Club Plus Super has axed the majority of its Aussie equities investment managers - leaving the fund with just four major managers to take care of a $400 million domestic equities portfolio. Club Plus Super, the industry ...

J.P. Morgan teams up with Linear AM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
J.P. Morgan and Linear Asset Management have developed a new SMA that has a built-in and adjustable capital protection feature against volatile markets. Linear AM has launched the Linear Continuously Protected SMA, with the underlying synthetic portfolio ...

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
Is this the beginning of the end? Gauging from last week's actions - rather inactions - by four of the world's major central banks, it appears that this is so. It had been a awhile since financial markets witnessed the kind of central bank activity ...

Bull market on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
Wall Street paused. Wall Street is refreshed and ready for more climbing. Wall Street is back after taking a breather over the past three days, reversing some of the losses incurred since the start of the week. The S&P 500 index gained more than one ...

Out with the new old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Headline: IMF warns worst to come, toxic debt to reach US$4,100,000,000,000. Yeah...yeah. Sure...sure. I am so scared. Wall Street ignored the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR). This is because while delivered ...

APRA declares hand on unlisted asset valuations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
APRA has unveiled how unlisted assets should be valued in light of the current markets and broke away from tradition when it outlined what it considers as 'bad practice'. "Valuations of 'appraisal based' assets can have a critical impact on members ...

Risk of indigestion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
Whoa boy! Take it easy. How many times have we been admonished by our elders to chew our food slowly right in the middle of chomping down a big chunk of that juicy, tender, savoury steak? Not once, not twice but many, many times. Because it is the me ...

BNP turns to games for education

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
BNP Paribas has developed a video game that allows the bank's European based employees to create their own virtual bank and learn more about the international banking system. The game, Starbank, allows employees or players to build a bank in an orbital ...

Super and pensions under attack

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
It's still open season on Australia's retirement savings system as two more reports have been released attacking the social inequity of superannuation and age pension rules. The Australia Institute has released a research paper that argues superannuation ...

FPA members gain practice tool

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
Financial Planning Association (FPA) members can benchmark their business against others in the industry and identify areas for improvement after Business Health's practice diagnostic program was added to the association's online member section. The ...