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PIS in Westpoint compensation deal

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
Professional Investment Services has reached an agreement with ASIC to settle a class action brought by the corporate watchdog in relation to failed Westpoint investments. The proceeding concerns a claim for compensation relating to financial advice ...

Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
Don't look now but the debate as to what letter of the alphabet the global recovery will take - U, V or W - could all turn out to be wrong. It could be an L with the horizontal part of the letter longer and downward sloping. Trust politicians to try ...

FSA fines firm for bad advice

FSA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
UK-based Financial Services Authority (FSA) fined a financial advice firm $27,000 for failing to match client appetite for risk with appropriate investment products. The regulator found the Henry Neil practice advised clients to sell segments of existing ...

Depends on the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
You know Australia is back to normal when "they will, they won't" speculation on interest rates returns a major sport. This is usually accompanied by "they will earlier, they will later" betting with every economic data release providing evidence for ...

Future Fund books 4.2pc loss

FUTURE FUND UPDATE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
The Future Fund rode the latest quarter market recovery when it gained 5.1 per cent in the three months to June, but posted a 4.2 per cent loss for the financial year (ex Telstra). The fund's Telstra shares of around two billion gained 4.9 per cent ...

Protection without commission: JB Global

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Boutique capital protection specialist JB Global Investment Services has taken the "no commission" stance to heart and axed trail and built-in commission in all its products - relying instead on performance fees to remunerate advisers. Justin Beeton ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Like everywhere else around the globe, Japan's equity markets have rebounded from the extreme pessimism that marked the low point of the global financial crisis back in March 2009. At the end of August, the Nikkei-225 index has risen by 48.7 per cent ...

Mmm...bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... economy." At this time, the FOMC was not even convinced that inflation pressures were moderating. Four months later, December 2007 and voila! - the US recession commences. Ahhh...but this time, it's different! The Fed is correct. Unemployment is still ...

Lucky, lucky, lucky

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
Australians all let us rejoice! We should be so lucky. Lucky. Lucky. Lucky. For a teeny-weeny land that represents only around 2 per cent of the global economy, nobody expected that this "lucky country" would be this lucky. While the biggest economies ...

The return of the cocooning consumer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
The savings pattern of many Australians has changed dramatically since June last year, and it's uncannily similar to the way people saved after the Great Depression, research shows. Research conducted by Retail Finance Intelligence (Rfi) found the return ...