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Challenger selects Five Oceans for Asian equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
Challenger Managed Investments has changed the investment manager of its Asian and China funds from Halbis Capital Management to Five Oceans Asset Management, resulting in a revised investment strategy. Challenger bought HSBC's asset management division ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher following gains on Wall Street on Friday, but lower base metal prices may weigh on resources stocks. At 0723 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 34 points ...

Undue credit (ratings)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... Matthew, the Apostle, was correct when he wrote that, "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one (investors) and love the other (debt issuers)..." Ahhh, the more things change, the more they remain the same. The ratings agencies have ...

Mmm...bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... seeing." This is what the band Earth, Wind & Fire had to say about September: "Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders While chasing the clouds away." We'll be singing this too after September's passed.

ASIC cracks down on MIS scammer

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
ASIC has turned its attention on a managed investment scheme (MIS) operator, James Kentwell Lovell, who allegedly fleeced $7.9 million from 200 investors, including self-managed super funds. On 29 July 2009, ASIC obtained interim orders in the Supreme ...

Mortgage funds redux

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... increase subject to market improvement), is welcome news but also sends a strong signal of where the industry is heading. "We'd love to do unlimited redemptions but the reality is, that it's not going to happen," said Prasad. What is going to happen ...

Taking a breather

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
What do you get when you fall in love (with stocks)? A person with a pin to burst your bubble. That's what you get for all your trouble. Yesterday I warned that the equity markets' advance had been too fast and running too far ahead of economic fundamentals. ...

Make love not leverage

... global financial system. Their disgust is clearly displayed on the placards they waved. 'Capitalism isn't working'. 'Make love, not leverage'. 'Eat the Bankers'. 'Banker, rhymes with ?'. But thousands of kilometers away across the Atlantic, the atmosphere ...

The power of optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
'Never underestimate the power of optimism.' (Camp Quality) This was perfectly proven by the equity markets' strong performance last week where many of the indices - if not all - spiked to their best weekly gain since November 2008. News reports and ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... Morgan's credit rating and that it is reviewing the credit ratings of Wells Fargo and Bank of America. You can't help but love credit rating agencies, can you? They only decide to check if it is raining outside after your house is already neck deep in ...