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Rising above the average: Fiducian

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
Financial services and advisory group Fiducian trailed behind some of its peers during the years of easy money but when the crunch came, it's the group's very same prudent strategy that saved the day. The numbers show a part of the story. The group ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
The Australian market has received a strong lead from Wall Street, although precious metals were down. Copper and oil both were up, however. At 0808 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 70 points HIGHER at 3,385. In economic ...

REST ramps up credit exposure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (REST) extended the fund's credit exposure by investing $150 million in the Credit Suisse Syndicated Loan fund and $100 million Stone Tower's Offshore Credit fund in December. Damian Hill, REST chief executive ...

Planners champion risk advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Risk advice is today high on the agenda of advisers' businesses as a new survey shows advisers earn over a quarter of their practice revenue from risk products - a 30 per cent jump from 2007. According to the latest planner risk and risk technology ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
What happens in Rome stays in Rome. Or so it should have been were it not for the sudden resignation of Japan's Finance Minister following the meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bankers on Valentine's Day. Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi ...

Perpetual appoints new staff, Walsh exits

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Perpetual has appointed new staff to its institutional sales and service team, while senior executive Justin Walsh resigns. Daniel Campbell has been promoted to general manager for global equities institutional sales and service, Asia Pacific. Campbell ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly higher as European and US stocks rebounding from yesterday's big sell-offs to register modest gains. At 0825 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 13 points at ...

Real estate under threat

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
Real estate could soon be a threatened asset class if property fund managers are not transparent about the sales and devaluation of their funds, says a US property investment expert. The slow trickling of cash flows into the global REITs sector has ...

ING appoints RetireInvest CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
ING Australia appointed former Genesys Wealth Advisers chief operating officer, Paul Campbell as RetireInvest chief executive. Campbell was most recently chief executive at South Australian based Poynter Hargraves Financial Consultants where managed ...

No meat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
'All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say Yo Goober! Where's the meat? I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.' Homer Simpson. Equity investors who came to US Treasury ...