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QIC sees stronger Aus equities in 2011

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... underinvestment. He said that the financial sector is facing a number of headwinds and finds it difficult to see how the banks would sustain the returns on equity they have been able to achieve in recent years. The banks have become "political footballs" ...

Confidence will return to Ireland: Govt

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... and requested assistance from the European Union and IMF to solve its fiscal crisis, and enable it to prop up its ailing banks. News reports note Ireland would receive a,-70 billion in assistance from the IMF and EU, as authorities look to prevent the ...

FPA defends turf, looks to HNW

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... on medium to high net worth clients. He said that lower balance clients would naturally gravitate to industry funds and banks for advice - advice, he added, that would not necessarily be conflict-free. He also said that the FPA had been holding discussions ...

ASIC takes legal action against Storm founders and banks

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... watchdog ASIC is to take legal action against Storm Financial founders, Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis, and against three banks, on behalf of investors affected by the company's collapse. ASIC will take legal action against the two Storm financial directors ...

Instreet appoints Brant to its board

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... when retail aggregators are filling the void for customised investments that's been increasingly abandoned by investment banks. In October, the group launched a geared Aussie equity product tailored for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) and retail inv ...

Better than a Thanksgiving turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... failed to allay investor fears because of the strings attached... around its neck. China is tightening policy and Chinese banks could no longer lend - there goes Chinese growth, there goes world growth. As if speculation that world growth would go away ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... growing. Ahhh, but Mr. Market fears that there too, something is about to go wrong. According to Bloomberg, "China's biggest banks are poised to hit government-set caps on lending and plan to stop expanding their loan books to avoid exceeding the annual ...

Ireland gives in to EU bailout

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... and requested assistance from the European Union and IMF to solve its fiscal crisis and enable it to prop up its ailing banks. The Guardian newspaper reported that Ireland would receive a,-70 billion in assistance from the IMF and EU, as authorities ...

Zurich eyes platforms for growth

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... investments at Zurich, said the firm will be pushing its existing products onto platforms and wraps, along with private banks, to increase new business flows. "On the platforms, generally we've only had one or two products represented - we want to expand ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... tightening measures. The Peoples Bank of China again raised the reserve requirement by 50 bps to as much as 18 per cent for major banks. This followed the State Council's announcement of its own measures designed to contain rising food and commodity ...