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Derivative Fitch rates structured products

Fitch Ratings has launched what it claims is the first ratings agency specialising in the global credit derivatives market, which is fast approaching the $44 trillion (US$33 trillion) mark thanks to the rising demand for structure products. The new ...

AFA launches its new website

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has unveiled a new website with major restructuring and upgrades to better provide for member information needs. Paul Riegelhuth, chairman of the AFA website committee, said the AFA site had been redesigned ...

Suncorp bids for Promina and a national footprint

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2006
Shares in Promina Group, parent of Tyndall and Asteron, have rocketed ahead on news that giant Queenslander Suncorp has made a billion dollar play for the business in a move that would see Suncorp extend its formidable sunshine state presence across ...

Risky LPTs distorting the sector: Macquarie

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2006
Listed property trusts (LPTs) have never varied so widely according to Macquarie, who say out that much of the sector has been skewed by LPTs operating like anything but a traditional LPT and carrying risk beyond their traditional scope. David Dix ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index has risen to its highest level since January 2000 as the US market absorbs the positive impact of lower oil prices and the reduced threat of harsher interest rates. The consumer side of the economy as measured ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
When the Reserve Bank meets today to consider the economy and whether or not they should raise interest rates, some pressure against an upward move has come from the survey of the construction industry by the Master Builders Association. The index of ...

Banks to fund consumer IT security: Symantec

Banks may have to pay for the IT systems of their clients if they want to avert the trend where consumers are refusing to transact online due to rampant IT identity theft and sophisticated internet scams. David Sykes, vice-president of Symantec's Pacific ...

Advice scam nets accountant 8 years inside

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
An accountant who fleeced nearly $1 million from investors through his financial advice business has been jailed for eight years. Piet Walters was found guilty of 14 charges of dishonesty relating to $972,000 given to his Drury Management business in ...

There's room for more alpha: T. Rowe Price

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
Despite making money for investors the world over for nearly 70 years, US based T. Rowe Price has avoided the Australian market, until now. But with the red-hot global run that most Aussie equities managers have ridden to record returns now cooling ...

Real estate a global game: LaSalle

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
Globally is simply the best way to look at your listed real estate allocation, according to LaSalle Investment Management Real Estate Securities. According to managing director, Stanley Kraska, Jr, there are two simple reasons that global listed real ...