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Capital protected funds in demand

Citi and JPMorgan have launched new products designed for retail investors who want to continue buying equities, despite the ongoing credit-led market fallout, as long as their initial capital is protected from any further market downswing. Citi has ...

The price of pain

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
Nothing like a good cash injection to stabilise ailing equity markets, or in the Bank of England's case, offering the patient a drip but at a price. Equity markets suffered another bumpy ride on Friday night with the Dow roller coasting again, dropping ...

The upside of carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
Is the current sub-prime calamity really another savings and loan crisis in the making, or just market noise? Consensus is that the volatility is more rollercoaster than bear-trend, and as such markets are quite capable of recovering just a quickly. ...

Fat Prophets enters SMA market

Independent researcher Fat Prophets has launched its own version of a Separately Managed Account (SMA), providing investors access to a professionally managed share portfolio of either Australian shares or mining and resources stocks, or a blend of ...

ASX updates corporate governance guidelines

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2007
The Australian Securities Exchange Corporate Governance Council today released its first update to the ASX's Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations since 2003. To be launched officially this afternoon by Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer ...

From rooster to feather duster

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2007
What a difference a week can make. A little more than a week after the Dow Jones average hit a record high, on Thursday the share market began a backward landslide. Global equity markets took another hit on Friday night on the back of the US sub-prime ...

CFDs move from off-market to exchange

With the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) planning to open a contracts for difference (CFDs) exchange in two month's time, investment house ABN AMRO gets in first with the launch of its own branded listed CFDs. The group has today listed around ...

Plan B gets growing in New Zealand

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
Recently listed Plan B Holdings has shifted its expansion plans into gear with the announcement of an alliance between its subsidiary Partnership Financial Services and New Zealand-based Polson Higgs Business Advisors. Polson Higgs will provide advice ...

Gloves come off over ASX monopoly

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
As ASIC calls for public submissions on the ASX's local shares trading monopoly, rival AXE claims the ASX has been running a competition fear campaign. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched a consultation process on ...

Australia as Asian hub a pipe dream

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
Australia's hopes of becoming the primary Asian financial hub, as espoused recently by MLC chief executive Steve Tucker, are in severe need of a reality check, according to FTSE's Asia Pacific managing director Paul Hoff. Speaking during a whistlestop ...