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Can't hear you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... full-year earnings forecast as profit beat estimates." Could it be? That Americans are now buying jewellery instead of houses while at the same time claiming unemployment insurance? Just a thought. Nah! Bloomberg quotes Mark Luschini, chief investment ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... interest rates, rising fuel, energy and food bills and the soaring A-dollar (even foreigners could no longer afford to buy our houses) have had a hand. And did you catch a glimpse of the 22,100 drop in April employment, where 49,100 jobs vanished? Not ...

ASX fines broker for bad behaviour

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... interests of ASX and market participants by supporting the integrity of the market it operates," it said. Seven other broking houses have been disciplined so far this year. All eight firms were found guilty of level two serious contraventions and were ...

ASIC silent on possible research probe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
ASIC has refused to confirm or deny whether research houses who gave five-star ratings or positive reports on fraud funds Trio Capital and Astarra are being investigated. But industry insiders say the corporate watchdog is conducting a high-level investigation ...

Planners prime legal targets for angry clients

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... Tarrants has been sued by 100 investors, despite doing due diligence. Tarrant says he viewed audited reports and major ratings houses gave Trio and associated Astarra funds glowing ratings. Finn Kelly, financial planner at advisory group Synchron, said ...

ING shelves global equities fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... The fund was only launched in Australia in the first quarter of 2011 and was in the process of being reviewed by research houses here. "Due to some personnel changes in Europe we decided it would be commercially prudent to temporarily withdraw the fund ...

Trio victims turn on planners

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... advice. He said the firm based its decision on audited financial accounts as well as research from three reputable research houses, which all gave Trio Capital glowing reports. Tarrants has itself encouraged former clients to join a class action against ...

Media Super wants corporate marriage

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... corporate funds which we need to be able to replicate in order for them to come into Media Super." "We'd have clearing houses, telephone financial advice, a defined benefit capability - those sort of things which we would require to tempt a corporate ...

Big mandates, big risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... consulting. Sovereign wealth funds, worth a collective US$4 trillion, commonly give large mandates to external investment houses such as BlackRock, Aberdeen, Schroder, PIMCO and Goldman Sachs for management. "When you take sovereign wealth funds as clients ...

Aussie funds fail transparency test

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... hand it's incredibly difficult and time consuming to do research properly." Hooper said planners were reliant on research houses for a basic level of information but they had so many funds to report on that their research is not as in-depth as it should ...