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Indian pension funds poised for growth

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Recent reforms to India's pension system could foster a "shareholder society" that will underpin the country's equity markets for years to come, market watchers say. India, like most emerging market economies, has no universal retirement safety net. ...

Intra-fund advice takes off

ISN RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
A year after ASIC published guidelines on the provision of intra-fund advice, 50,000 super fund members have tapped the service, according to the Industry Super Network. Most large industry super funds are developing and rolling out large projects to ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
Is this it? Is this the one? Is this the beginning of the end of uncertainty and the start of Wall Street's rebound to higher highs? Over the past oh so many months, we've seen strong daily rallies on Wall Street almost always followed by investors ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
"Ben most people would turn you away I don't listen to a word they say They don't see you as I do I wish they would try to I'm sure they'd think again If they had a friend like Ben (a friend) like Ben (a friend) like Ben." -Michael Jackson Have no fear ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
Horrendous! Terrible! Shockingly disappointing! These are just some of the adjectives the financial press quoting the analysts, quoting the economists, quoting the experts used to describe last night's disappointing US housing data. Latest figures from ...

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. ...

APRA dictates investment option labels

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
The prudential regulator has drawn a line in the sand on how super fund investment options are to be labelled and announced it will introduce risk-based criterion for how diversified investment options will in the future be categorised. The move kills ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
The Australian market has received flat to mixed leads from offshore trading, with Wall Street's key indices flat, while indices were down in Europe and Asia. Precious metals traded higher, as did oil and copper. At 0759 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
It was another ho-hum moment on Wall Street overnight. The Dow went down less than 1 per cent, then up less than 1 per cent, then closed 0.1 per cent higher. The same goes for the S&P 500 index... well, almost. It went down less than 1 per cent, up ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
ow that's more like it! It feels good doesn't it? This may be the one we've been waiting for when something, somehow happens that short circuits the cycle of fear that had been feeding on itself for months now. Although, he didn't say much that the ...