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Secure Computing beats hackers at own game

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
Secure Computing is helping financial services firms from inadvertently downloading malicious software without limiting the sites they can access by thinking like a hacker. The Australian Tax Office, the Royal Mint and a range of local banks are known ...

MCG appoints Select

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
MCG Wealth Management has appointed Select Asset Management to administer its portfolio management process. MCG, which manages $250 million on behalf of 45 high net worth Australian families, first started using a number of Select funds around 2003 ...

The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
Central banks threw in the kitchen sink. In a coordinated move, six major world central banks each cut their benchmark target interest rate by 50 basis points in efforts to stem the global panic. The US Federal Reserve lowered the fed funds rate to ...

Solaris weathers market fury

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... outperformance," he said. "If you deliver what you're supposed to deliver and you've got a mix of quality clients, you shouldn't be in danger of going under. The risk is if you're performance had gone out the window." The boutique uses an "empowered ...

America on its knees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
The bloodbath continues. The Federal Reserve's US$85 billion bailout of American Insurance Group (AIG) proved insufficient to calm the financial market panic that appears to be increasing by the day. The overnight sell-off saw more than three years' ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
'This is a once in a half century, probably once in a century type of event.' (Alan Greenspan). Are we headed for a repeat of the global depression of the 1930s? This might sound too alarmist but indeed, quite a possibility as one giant US financial ...

Banks not ready for Web 2.0

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
While many retail banks have toyed with the idea of using social networking sites to draw customers, a new study found many are still afraid that linking up their online services to third-party content poses a serious security threat. Datamonitor's ...

Eyes on the labour market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... the likelihood of a technical recession. Newly appointed Japanese Finance Minister Bunmei Ibuki stressed that he saw a danger of 'cost-push stagflation' in Japan, and conceded that monetary policy options were limited for the moment. Meanwhile, it seems ...

RMBS market on brink of collapse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
The RMBS market is in danger of collapsing and - without government intervention - consumers may be left at the mercy of the big banks as the only remaining mortgage lenders. "The RMBS market is dying on the vine," said Greg Medcraft, chief executive ...

SELECT guides investors to managed futures

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
SELECT Asset Management highlights the diversification benefits and potential to generate strong returns in down equity markets of managed futures in a new information guide for retail investors. According to the firm's The Case for Managed Futures ...