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Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Whatever the outcome of the US election, the President will have to face up to fiscal cliff or jeopardise the global recovery, according to Standard Life Investment's Andrew Milligan. With both presidential candidates rounding the final corner of their ...

Bond CFDs, charting tools now on Saxo platform

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Saxo Capital Markets (Australia) Pty Ltd has added CFDs on government bonds to the existing range of asset classes available to trade, plus new charting tools to assist investors with greater information. Available on SaxoTrader, SaxoWebTrader, SmartMobileTrader ...

Tyndall develops fixed income info kit

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
An information kit has been developed by asset manager Tyndall AM to help advisers explain how fixed income works to their clients. It will include eight fact sheets on different aspects of fixed income, such as credit markets, covered bonds, and the ...

Bad everywhere news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
Believe me I tried... and I tried, and I tried. But I can't find no, no good news on cyberspace, on print or th airwaves this morning. The good news have all AWOL it seems. What I found instead was a listing of the bad and the ugly. Below are the Bloomberg ...

Searching for conviction: Premium China study tour

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Premium China Funds Management (PCFM) has just wrapped up a study tour of China, which saw more than 50 Australian financial advisers get a first-hand feel of two cities in a country that's never far from the headlines. While its economic strength is ...

BOQ not a takeover target: Grimshaw

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Bank of Queensland (BOQ) is not a takeover target, and the worst is behind it, said its chief executive, after the bank became the first in two decades to post a loss. Stuart Grimshaw, BOQ chief executive officer, denied speculation that the bank would ...

BoQ first Aussie bank to post loss in 20 years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
The losses, which were carried over from the first half of 2012 despite the bank returning to profit in the second, have been blamed on bad loans and plunging property prices in Queensland, as well as on a slowing economy. The last instance of an Australian ...

Treats not threats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
Huh? Halloween already? It certainly felt that way last week, didn't it? It was the week when the spooks went out a-haunting. The Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were out like a three-headed monster, singing ...

Non-aligned advisers driving new platforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
There are now an estimated 5,300 non-aligned financial advisers in Australia, a figure that has been revised upwards by Rainmaker in response to recent takeovers and expanding research coverage. This new figure equates to 29% of advisers of Australia ...

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
Here you go again, u-huh, scaring us again, u-huh. Can you feel it, can you feel it, can you feel it? Sure you can, it's all over the place - Chicken Little is going around crying "the sky is falling" (again). You can't miss it, not even if you close ...