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Turning Bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
Dear Abby, I have a confession to make...I think I'm losing my horns and my tail is growing shorter. My body is slowly being covered with fur, what used to be hooves are now claws and I am getting an unusual craving for honey. OMG! I think I'm turning ...

BRW Rich 200 lists fin services best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
Platinum's Kerr Neilson, ex-Macquarie chief Allan Moss and Maple-Brown Abbott co-founder Robert Maple-Brown led the charge of financial services execs who made it to this year's BRW Rich 200. Platinum manages more than $17 billion in client funds spread ...

Fund fees not coming down: Cooper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
Super System Review chair Jeremy Cooper said market forces in super aren't enough to drive the best outcome for members, arguing that contrary to industry claims, fund fees have gone up, not down, in the past decade. In his speech at the Committee for ...

FSA starts Goldman Sachs investigation

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
The UK's Financial Services Authority is launching its own investigation into Goldman Sachs' alleged fraud activities, following charges to the firm by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US. The FSA said in a short statement yesterday that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
The Australian stock market likely to open stronger following a mostly positive lead from Wall Street overnight. At 0736 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 33 points higher at 4,947 points. In economics news ...

Goldman Sachs accused of fraud

SEC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Goldman Sachs and one of its vice presidents for fraud relating to subprime mortgages. The SEC is charging Goldman Sachs for defrauding investors by mis-stating and omitting key facts about a ...

Government annuities proposal draws industry fire

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Compulsory government annuities could widen the gap between the retirement payouts of low and high income workers, and some industry experts argue private sector annuities and longevity risk products offer better alternatives. IFSA, which commissioned ...

Iffy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
It was again an "iffy" performance on Wall Street overnight. Wall Street will see share prices rise - at least until the next equity unfriendly news hit - iffy this weekend's US Non-farm Payrolls comes in better than market expectations. Share prices ...

AXA Asia Pac shares on trading halt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
The countdown to the possible new owner of AXA Asia Pacific begins in earnest after the group requested a trading halt on its shares before noon today, ahead of a company announcement and a day before ACCC releases its findings on the AMP proposal. ...

Tale of two extremes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
"Those who don't remember history are condemned to repeat it." How often have we heard this - and variation of this -- "wise saying" before? Many, many, many times. But for financial markets, remembering history on the second week of March 2010 has ...