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Super without worries

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
While you can't predict where the markets will be in the future, you can protect your retirement savings from their mood swings. AXA Australia couldn't have picked a better time when it launched a capital guarantee product, North, in late 2007. The ...

Three FMs pull S&P property ratings

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
AXA Australia, BlackRock and Tankstream Capital have dropped the Standard & Poor's rating on certain property funds. The funds were rated by Standard & Poor's between 2007 and mid 2008 but were placed 'on hold' in August last year when each fund suspended ...

Regulator warns on rev mortgages

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and Paul Clitheroe's financial literacy team launched an information guide on reverse mortgages, warning consumers about the possible pitfalls. Thinking of using the equity in your home? A ...

No protection in protectionism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
Those who kept the faith shall reap a bountiful harvest. Increased volatility and weaker equity market performance of the past three days have tested the conviction of some investors. Wall Street ended three consecutive days of losses overnight following ...

Slippery - watch your step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
So much money has to go somewhere. With almost all governments and central banks of the world pumping liquidity into the financial system, it comes as no surprise that some have flowed into commodities. Along with the rally in the equity markets, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
Australian shares are expected to rise on Wednesday after commodity prices, including gold, oil and copper, gained in New York overnight. At 0715 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 24 points higher at 3,968. ...

Hedge funds to get $60 billion boost

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
Pension funds around the world are expected to pump up their $547 billion hedge fund allocation by more than $60 billion before December as they look to balance assets and liabilities, new research shows. Hedge fund managers are expected to heap an ...

Broker swindled investor funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
A former mortgage broker has been charged with fraud after failing to invest $123,000 from a private investor. Adrian Camilleri, who used to work as a mortgage broker and director for Asset Finance Service, was found guilty yesterday on one count of ...

Mortgage fund managers review their options

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Fund managers in charge of $20 billion of mortgage trusts are rolling over between 50 and 80 per cent of the loans in their portfolios, as they try to maintain a balance between the demand of investors for liquidity and the need to maintain relationships ...

Stocks and bonds agree on recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Similar economic news, opposite Wall Street reaction. Are equity investors still decoding the economic tea leaves or just marching to the beat of their own drum? For how could Wall Street have exactly opposite reactions to almost similar indications ...