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USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Uh-oh, we're in trouble now - really big trouble -- or so they say. No use pretending not to know what I'm talking about, it's splattered all over the weekend news. S&P has dropped one A from the USA's AAA. I must admit, I too didn't know what to think ...

Lonsec casts eye over fund fee structures

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
Ratings agency Lonsec has analysed the fee structures of fund managers in its Australian Equities Long/Short peer group and discovered two funds that employ a performance hurdle of 0%. While the performance fee hurdles employed by most managers in the ...

Net-net, it's still good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
What a drama 'ey? You know what I'm talking about. The drama that is the 'off-again-on-again' deal on the US debt ceiling and the 'it'll be bailed, no it won't' Greek tragedy. Yes, those ones. The ones that sent risk assets up, then down, then up again ...

Bigger super funds may not be cheaper for members

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... feature board and C-level speakers from super funds including Cbus, Legal Super and WestScheme, see the event website. To discover the real reasons why the super industry is consolidating, see the upcoming issue of FS Super: the Journal of Superannua ...

NAB sued over financial advice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
The National Australia Bank is being sued after a financial planner allegedly told a couple to invest more than half of their portfolio in two European property trusts, losing them more than a million dollars. In 2007, Victorian cattle farmers Malcolm ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... He has a point. The numbers are not as bad as they seemed. Browse through the National Accounts - go on - and you'll discover that despite the contraction in first quarter real GDP, Australian domestic demand remains buoyant. Domestic demand increased ...

It's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... Sachs lowered its end-2011 forecast for the S&P 500. That should get you all hot and bothered. But read on and you'll discover that Goldman lowered its 2011 target from 1500 to 1450 points. And that's supposed to be bad? What it means, if Goldie's on ...

Fraud adviser banned for life

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Financial adviser Robert Owen Bean has been banned for life for stealing more than $3 million from his clients over seven years, some of which he used for his own personal benefit, ASIC said today. Bean had been a securities representative and authorised ...

Financial services targeted for data theft

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
The financial services industry is being targeted for data theft, one of the world's foremost experts on hack attacks said today. Tal Be'ery, web research team leader from US-based data protection firm Imperva, said the cyber criminals were following ...

Janus sifts through sectors for EM value

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... than picking a country and then unearthing the best stocks that it has to offer, Janus uses its 38 senior analysts to discover the most valuable companies in each sector, wherever they may by based. The best brewery company may now be found in Brazil ...