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Financial Wisdom recognises its best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
West Australian financial planning practice, Wealth Wise and financial adviser, Cameron O'Sullivan won Financial Wisdom's practice and rising star awards respectively. Financial Wisdom Practice of the Year, Wealth Wise, employs six advisers and 11 support ...

ASIC tightens short-selling rules

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
The Australian Securities Exchange Commission (ASIC) moves to block offshore market speculators and traders from targeting the local stockmarket when it imposed temporary restrictions on short-selling of all listed Australian equities effective today. ...

No more short cuts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
UK's financial services regulator has stepped in to ban the shorting of UK bank shares and other financials from today until January next year - mirroring the US regulator's move to tighten rules on short-selling to thwart speculators from causing more ...

AusSuper saves members $15m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
AustralianSuper's tax file number campaign has saved members an estimated $15 million in tax. The direct mail campaign was launched in June. The campaign resulted in more than 44 per cent of members responding, saving $15.2 million in tax. "Members ...

GMO opens EM portfolio to new frontiers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
Global investment management firm GMO is broadening its emerging market portfolio to include frontier economies such as Nigeria, Vietnam and the Gulf States. Marco Vangelisti, GMO emerging markets portfolio manager, said the firm is looking to allocate ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
'This is a once in a half century, probably once in a century type of event.' (Alan Greenspan). Are we headed for a repeat of the global depression of the 1930s? This might sound too alarmist but indeed, quite a possibility as one giant US financial ...

UK's Cambridge wins Aust mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
London-based currency risk manager Cambridge Strategy has won its first mandate in Australia - marking the debut of a British currency manager in the local institutional space. Cambridge is led by Australian-born chief executive Peter Henricks, an Alliance ...

Oil on slippery slope?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
Crude oil failed to capitalise on reports of lower inventories and the threat of further disruptions to supply as Hurricane Ike approaches the Gulf of Mexico. Only a few months ago, just a hint of a lower-than-expected fall in crude oil inventories ...

US payrolls jitters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
Here we go again. If the overnight performance of the European and US stockmarkets are anything to go by, Asian and Australian equities are in for another rough trading day. Wall Street and European bourses tumbled last night as fears of a global slowdown ...

AUSfund posts zero pc crediting rate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
AUSfund's Eligible Rollover Fund (ERF) is proving to be one of the best performing funds after it posted a zero per cent crediting rate over a one year period to June. This result brings AUSfund's five year crediting rate to 10.5 per cent. David Haynes ...