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Age of the virtual super regulator

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
The creation of a 'super' regulator, in which securities commissions around the world agree to govern under a unifying set of principles that crosses national boundaries, might just be the key to prevent a repeat of the global financial crises. Speaking ...

Karara restructures for Aus eq focus

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
Karara Capital will be a fully employee-owned business after it reshuffled its company structure to focus on its Australian equities expertise. Karara announced yesterday that its key investment staff will continue to manage Aussie equities. The new ...

Bail-out Plan B

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... US$700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will no longer buy the TA (troubled assets) under the RP (relief program). Yes that is correct. You read it right. US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced that TARP would no longer purchase toxic ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower after US stocks slumped overnight after Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the government would not buy banks' soured mortgage assets after all. Resource stocks also are likely to fall after oil ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower today after US stocks fell overnight on signs that company profits are being hit by the decline in consumer spending. At 0810 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures ...

Perpetual mortgage funds reopen

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
Perpetual has reopened applications for three of its $1.7 billion mortgage funds after an 18 day suspension to all its mortgage and income funds. The fund manager announced yesterday that it is now accepting applications for the Monthly Income Fund ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... Australia's trading partners, faced with diminishing wealth, finds better value in the country's exports of goods and services. Yes, Australia will go into recession - if all things remain equal. But they are not.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket remained firmly in the red at noon, dragged down by the miners after sharply lower base metal prices in London and a more than five per cent drop on Wall Street overnight on heightened concerns of a US recession. At 1210 AEDT ...

Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... Obama. Mothers around the world from hereon would be able to point to that little, thin Kenyan boy that could and became. Yes we can! But can we? The US president-elect has a mammoth task ahead - even before he enters the gates of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ...

The other race

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
Punters would have been better off putting their hard-earned dollar into the Melbourne Cup winner - Viewed -- yesterday than on the RBA rate cut expecting an equity market gain. Both provided a surprise outcome, but while Viewed returned A$46.50 to ...