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RIAA adds more members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
Super Safeguard, The FTSE Group - Australia and Trucost are the new members of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA). UBS Wealth Management financial adviser, Bernie Connolly; Fortuna Capital Partners consultant, Brookes McTavish ...

Invest in debt, but carefully

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
In the aftermath of the credit crunch, big opportunities are presenting themselves in the debt markets provided investors know where to look and how to choose between them. "Markets are now ridiculously cheap. Investors are asking what happened, why ...

Don't punish fin services for GFC: Pearce

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
The Federal Opposition said imposing a new round of regulation on the financial services sector as a reaction to the GFC could be counter-productive. Chris Pearce, Shadow minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law, yesterday told ...

Merry Christmas retailers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
Well there we have it ladies and gentlemen. Yesterday's Australian retail sales figures have swung the pendulum in favour of Kevin 07 and his fiscal stimulus package. The Federal Opposition has been making noises ever since the A$42 billion was first ...

Goss heads ING life risk sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
ING Australia has appointed Kevin Goss as head of Life Risk Sales, reporting to Ross Barnwell, executive director for distribution. Goss has over 24 years' industry experience, gained in both the US and in Australia. He comes to ING from Zurich, where ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
'Tis the season to be jolly. Christmas has arrived early for equity investors. Or has it? Stock markets around the world rallied between 5 and 8 per cent yesterday and overnight, punctuated by the Dow's peeping above the 9,000 mark in intra-day trade ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Simplistically rejecting the idea of temporarily cutting super contributions misses the big opportunity - putting superannuation into the economic frontline and making it part of our monetary policy heavy artillery. A group of economists lead by Nick ...

Super funds reject calls to cut super contrib

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
A group of economists lead by Nick Gruen, principal of the Lateral Economics consultancy, have written to the Prime Minister proposing that employer super contributions be cut from 9 to 6 per cent with the money transferring to employees as take-home ...

Macq reduces headcount

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Macquarie Bank is the latest investment and banking firm to reduce headcount in the wake of the financial crisis with job cuts in its Melbourne and Sydney offices today. It is believed that more than 100 roles in Macquarie Capital were made redundant. ...

Investing in credit the next big opportunity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
The credit crunch induced shake-out of world bond markets has devalued loan portfolios so much that they now represent a tremendous investment opportunity. The revaluation is already attracting US pension funds and institutional investors to re-look ...