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Avoid high yield traps: State Street

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
According to the report, investors should be cautious when looking to add stocks with misleadingly high dividend yields to their portfolios, as the higher yield is often a result of significant price declines rather than increases in dividends paid. ...

Nightmare on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
Yep, the scare is on! Expect nothing less - it's Friday the 13th anyway. Jason and Freddie Kruger are out to induce a nightmare on Wall Street. But wait, it wasn't Jason, nor was it Freddie - it was the US initial "weekly" unemployment insurance claims ...

Fin centre plans hang in the balance: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
As election day looms, the superannuation minister Chris Bowen has savaged the Opposition's lack of support towards establishing an international finance and regulation centre - arguing it will be detrimental to Australia's plans to become a global ...

AUSCOAL goes live on Bluedoor

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
Industry fund AUSCOAL Super has today gone live with its BluedoorTM web-based administration registry solution. AUSCOAL Super has replaced its suite of superannuation applications with the Bluedoor single technology framework. The creation of a single ...

The Fed did it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
Ouch! Now that hurt didn't it? Of course it did. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.8 per cent, the Dow fell by 2.5 per cent and the Nasdaq declined by 3 per cent. Not a good night overall. But why am I not surprised? As I've written just two days ago ...

Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
Double-dip here we come! Yes Virginia, we're on our way back to the abyss. This, if you believe the talking heads and the written words on the financial media after the latest update on US employment hit trading screens last Friday night. The numbers. ...

Squared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
Be there or be square! No Virginia, investors weren't there on Wall Street last night, but they've more than squared (their positions). This morning's news tell the story of selling on Wall Street because of -- according to The Age - " A surprisingly ...

Complaints against planners fall

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has received less complaints against investments and financial planners in the past year, new figures show. Alison Maynard, investments, life insurance and superannuation ombudsman, said the number of investment ...

Good newer news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
Out with the old (news), in with the less older. Yes Virginia, this is the way that economic data are tumbling these days. But overall, they confirm the weakness of the ancient second quarter economy, an improvement in the current one and perhaps even ...

Super, homes and savings a happy combo

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
Superannuation, bank savings and the family home are some of the key wealth factors linked to greater happiness among Australians, new research shows. The latest AMP.Natsem report notes that spending money wisely can boost happiness and particular types ...