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Oil prices a two-way street

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
Record high oil prices is fuelling the Middle East to export nearly as much capital as they do oil, tying their economies to that of the west and acting as a brake on ever higher fuel prices. Saudi Arabia produces about one-third of the world's oil ...

Rates rising everywhere bar big bank mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
Plenty of mortgage managers and second tier lenders have pushed home loan interest rates higher in recent weeks as they, or their funders, have passed on some of the rising cost of funds connected to the global liquidity crunch. Examples include South ...

Markets still at risk: Tagliaferro

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
... survey of fund manager portfolios which found many investors are not pricing a potential market downturn (see today's article ). However, the latest Financial Stability Review released by the Reserve Bank of Australia this morning stated that the financial ...

Sub-prime dominoes falling

The sub-prime contagion's knock-on effect has so far collided with leveraged loans, investment grade bonds, high yield currencies and global equities. Now local councils are feeling the heat. While consensus has been that the sub-prime fallout would ...

Tyndall, Suncorp restructure investment ops

Tyndall and Suncorp have announced the restructuring of their investment operations following Suncorp's purchase of the Promina group in March this year. While concrete details are currently unavailable, Tyndall chief executive officer Brett Himbury ...

Boomers care more for environment than super

Baby Boomers, often referred to as the "Me Generation", are actually more concerned with environmental issues than their superannuation, according to a poll by the National Seniors Association (NSA). Covering 500 baby boomers (defined as having been ...

Finsia appoints interim CEO

Finsia has appointed Stephen Harrison as interim chief executive officer following Brian Salter stepping down from the role. Harrison has played a number of support roles in the industry over the last 18 months on top of his non-executive interests ...

Credit Suisse puts twist on hedge indexing

Credit Suisse has launched a new indexed leveraged hedge fund, with a unique daily liquidity feature and exposure to multiple hedge fund strategies and managers. The Credit Suisse/Tremont Index Strategies Fund, which opened two weeks ago, provides retail ...

People to power advice of the future

A financial planner's biggest expense - people - is also their biggest asset and will power the success of practices into the future. Speakers at yesterday's Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Financial Standard Luncheon Club Series for Financial ...

Lander and de Pourbaix take out BlackRock CIMA Scholarship

Financial Facts' research manager Lukasz de Pourbaix and van Eyk's co-head of investment research Jerome Lander have taken out this year's BlackRock CIMA Scholarship for Retail Researchers. Announced each year at the 13th annual Rainmaker Information ...