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Westpac launches BlueChip20

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
Westpac has launched an Australian shares separately managed account (SMA) that invests in the blue chip stocks to entice generation X into the market. The BlueChip20 SMA allows investors to build a portfolio in Australia's top 20 firms for a $2,500 ...

I have been dead wrong: Buffett

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... end, Berkshire Hathaway had written these holdings down to $27 million - a hefty 89 per cent loss. Since then, the two stocks have declined even further. "The tennis crowd would call my mistakes 'unforced errors'," said Buffett. But it's not all doom ...

GFC in a fortnight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... 1990/91 recession turned out to be great entry points for equity investors. But not many had the courage to load up on stocks back then -- not when everything looked doom and gloom. The same is true today. Better miss out on a few dollars than catch ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... worries that other banks would face crippling trouble with bad debt. And GE slashed its quarterly dividend by 68 per cent. Stocks closed off their lows of the day, but still had big losses as the market had its sixth straight losing month. The Dow and ...

Invest in debt, but carefully

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... a visit to Australia this week. Finding these opportunities is not as simple as it seems, however. "Bank loans are not stocks. People either pay them back or they default," said Perry. "I don't care about what will happen in 20 years as I care about ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... aside some of its worries about the financial system Thursday as governments stepped up efforts to help struggling banks. Stocks rose moderately, extending a back-and-forth pattern shown throughout the week, although towards late afternoon, they moved ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... a volume of 13,177 contracts. CMC Markets market analyst David Taylor said investors were feeling secure about banking stocks and consumer staples. "We've had a couple of stocks dragging on the market, but generally speaking we're up," he said. "The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... selling that left the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index near 12-year lows, so a bounce in stocks wasn't a surprise as bargain-hunting traders picked up pummeled shares. Some better-than-expected quarterly numbers from Home ...

Sovereign funds lose out after bank bail-out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... last year's crisis could dilute the returns of sovereign wealth funds and pensions funds that hold stake in US finance stocks. This week the US government, in concert with the Federal Reserve and other related agencies, announced that it would put the ...

Tyndall share fund wins four stars

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... per year over rolling five-year periods. Tyndall uses its Comparative Value Analysis intrinsic value process to screen stocks for the portfolio, and then measures the estimated sustainable grossed-up yield of those stocks to construct the final portfolio. ...