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Priced, but not for a V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
There's no point in us lurking around Wall Street this month. All the good news has been priced in. Perhaps. Perhaps not. This may well be - as I've discussed yesterday - the curse of September at work, where the line of least resistance is to give ...

Treasury profits down 57pc but positive outlook

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
Treasury Group's normalised profit for the past financial year fell by 57 per cent to $7.5 million as funds under management dropped more than 12 per cent to $10 billion. The group's net profit after tax (NPAT) was $4.9 million, a 71 per cent fall during ...

Lucky, lucky, lucky

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
Australians all let us rejoice! We should be so lucky. Lucky. Lucky. Lucky. For a teeny-weeny land that represents only around 2 per cent of the global economy, nobody expected that this "lucky country" would be this lucky. While the biggest economies ...

Vision and Quadrant to co-invest

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
Tasmania's $450 million Quadrant Super is pooling its investments with the $4 billion Vision Super - a move that will see the smaller fund tap bigger investment opportunities through better economies of scale. Quadrant Super, which has been in talks ...

Fundies and analysts target IT sector

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
Locally listed IT firms are catching the eye of stock analysts and high conviction fund managers as technology-related goods and services move from being a discretionary spend to a "must have" for today's consumers and businesses. Elio D'Amato, chief ...

AMP Capital Investors block poor corp governance

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
Fund manager AMP Capital Investors revealed in its latest governance report to what extent it exercised its shareholder rights to vote against poor governance - including saying no to unjustified incentive schemes, re-election of poor performing board ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
The gospel according to the US Federal Reserve: Economic activity -- "levelling out". Financial market conditions -- "improved further". Treasury buyback -- expiry extended another month to October (just in case). Fed funds rate - near zero for an extended ...

Irrationally exuberant greater fool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009

TC Growers closer to buying Timbercorp assets

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
First Super-backed TC Growers is a step closer to acquiring the failed Timbercorp's forestry assets. According to a media statement released by the consortium, which counts the $1.5 billion timber industry fund First Super and an unnamed international ...

Paraplanners left out of planning reforms, for now

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
While there is incessant debate on how the planning industry can lift its governance standards to better protect consumers, there is little talk about the future for paraplanners, but that could soon change. Bloch said paraplanners shouldn't have to ...