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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
Roll out the money-making machine. The US economic and financial situation continues to burn while the politicians fiddle. In spite of the goodwill that Barack Obama took with him to the Oval office and the fact that he has already etched a 'game plan' ...

Trade and chat at CMC Markets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
Move over Facebook, a new social network program is in town - CMC Markets traders are now chatting, trading, and sharing their secrets of success with each other on the firm's Trading Social Network. CMC Markets first piloted its TSN April last year ...

Investor knowledge fuels SMSF growth

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
The growth of SMSFs is holding steady amid the market downturn, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). SPAA chief executive Andrea Slattery, said the number of SMSFs established has remained constant between 2,500 to 3,000 ...

Janus banks on maths for success

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
Melbourne-based Janus Capital Asia is staying true to its quantitative analysis investment strategies to win mandates this year. John Landau, head of Australian operations at Janus Capital, there's been "a lot of strong interest" across Janus and Enhanced ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
So it was, so it shall be. The odds - the Dow fell in 12 out of the past 16 US Presidential Inaugurations - have prevailed. Now it's 13 out of 17. The Dow fell by 4.1 per cent and the S&P 500 dropped by 5.3 per cent as Barack Obama is confirmed as the ...

Pinnacle taps private equity demand

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
Pinnacle attracts two key private equity execs from AMP to run its newly-launched fund at a time when many investors are starting to trawl the market for the best private equity investments. Pinnacle Investment Management yesterday announced the establishment ...

Impax environment trust hits the market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
BNP Paribas Investment Partners has released Impax Environmental Markets Trust giving Australian investors exposure to a market which the firm expects will benefit from global government environmental policy. UK based Impax Asset Management holds a ...

New year, new stocks: Suncorp

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
Suncorp Investment Management has dramatically changed the investment line up within its Investment Management Word Equities Trust when it axed 50 per cent of the stocks in the portfolio and reconfigured fund manager allocation. The trust has increased ...

Introducing life cycle insurance: REST

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
REST Superannuation has revolutionised life insurance in super by introducing a "life cycle" approach to its death cover - breaking away from the traditional fixed cost or "$1 a week" insurance model. Almost one million active members of the $13 billion ...

Quadrant gives away $1000 rollover prize

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Quadrant Superannuation is offering its members the chance to win $1000 if they roll over their super. In a newsletter emailed to members, the super fund gave its members the opportunity to win the cash until mid December. Members with more than one ...