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Rescuing the rescue package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
An eerie calm fell over Wall Street and European markets overnight as investors sat on the fence ahead of the US Senate's vote over the financial sector rescue package. The Senate is widely expected to rescue the rescue package but it would not become ...

Bill failed, what next?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
The Australian stockmarket lost $45 billion by noon after the US Congress rejected the proposed bail-out package, but local investment experts argue that we are nowhere close a doomsday scenario, in fact quite the contrary. Sharemarket expert Dale Gilham ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
You call last week a sell-off, this is a sell-off. Wall Street is now more than US$1,000,000,000,000 (US$1 trillion) cheaper as investors dumped stocks following news of the US House of Representatives' rejection of the US$700 billion financial sector ...

Markets are a public good: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
Australia may be a small country but it took Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2,700 word speech to the United Nations on Friday to articulate a way out of the global financial mess. The speech was in contrast to US Treasury secretray Henry Paulson's widely ...

ESG buck stops with super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
Better and broader environmental, social and governance (ESG) research will occur when the major players high on the 'supply chain' such as super funds demand it, according to John Coombe, JANA executive director. Speaking at the Responsible Investment ...

Minnow mortgage manager wants to be big fish

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
To grab a larger slice of the mortgage manager pie, Firstfolio Limited continues the growth by acquisition strategy, taking on six businesses during financial year 2008. Firstfolio grew its lending book by a third, to $8 billion for the period, with ...

Sunsuper rewrites industry fund model

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
Sunsuper chief executive Tony Lally has outlined a fresh template for industry super funds - one that moves towards providing high-tech and more customised low-cost advice services to members. Speaking at the Association Superannuation Funds of Australia ...

Adam Smith hires portfolio manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
Boutique Australian equities investment manager Adam Smith Asset Management has appointed Stephen Atkinson as portfolio manager within its small cap Australian equities team. Atkinson has been a portfolio manager at MMC Asset Management, Credit Suisse ...

Tough times herald education boom

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
Tough economic times and a tight labour market is a potential windfall for Kaplan Professional as financial service employees' re-skill and set themselves apart from the competition. Warren Jacobson, Kaplan Professional chief executive, said the nature ...

ShareInvest gets Lonsec approval

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
OneVue's separately managed account (SMA) product, ShareInvest, received an 'approved' rating from Lonsec. Lonsec found the product's fees were transparent and reasonable for the administration service provided. "This means when financial planners use ...