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Propensity for foot shooting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013

Equipsuper appoints new board member

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... chief financial officer and company secretary. Equip chairman, Andrew Fairley, welcomed the appointment. "Terry has that rare combination of strong commercial acumen and an association with Equip that extends over several decades. His knowledge and appreciation ...

IOSCO recommends reforms to the $4.7tr MMF sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
An IOSCO review into the $4.7 trillion global money market fund sector has recommended further reforms to prevent a recurrence of the contagion crisis that fuelled the GFC in 2008. "Although money market funds (MMF) did not cause the crisis, their performance ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... cent at 91 cents after the company was granted a temporary licence for its controversial $US800 million ($A785.58 million) rare earths refinery in Malaysia. The price of gold in Sydney was at $US1,1692.92 per fine ounce, up 66 US cents from $US1,692.26 ...

Retail investors buy hybrids despite dangers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... risk/return characteristics as non-retail investors do. "When you undertake the analysis, hybrids are only attractive in rare instances," he added. Superficially, hybrids look like attractive alternatives to fixed interest type products including term ...

Greens plan to fell Westpac-backed logging

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... identified as the guarantor of a controversial project to log more than 1000 hectares of pristine rainforest, including an area of rare swamp forest on the island of Vella Lavella. The Senate yesterday heard the motion from Rhiannon, who wants Parliamentary ...

Julius Baer buys Merrill Lynch wealth

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... two-thirds of the assets being acquired domiciled in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. "This transaction represents a rare opportunity to acquire an international pure-play wealth management business of significant size and will add substantial ...

Decouple next-gen education from estate planning conversation

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
Financial education for younger generations from families of wealth should be a separate issue from wealth transfer planning and deserves to be treated as such. That's the message from Andrew Hewison, director and private client adviser at boutique ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... future bailouts. The first gain for the Dow in four sessions also provided some support but the euro gave up some of the rare recent gains it had made in New York currency trade. Tokyo closed 0.92 per cent, or 77.20 points, higher at 8443.10, Seoul was ...

Buy-right and equity managers will deliver income

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... already familiar with them." While there are hundreds of products like these available in the US, in Australia they are very rare, at least for the time being. "This is because the Australian equity market ran in a straight line (up) for 10 years and ...