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What price surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
Whose fault is it anyway? New Greens leader Christine Milne has barely warmed the seat Bob Brown vacated last week and she's already off to a firing start. Don't blame Julia and Swan (and the Greens?), they've been locked in into delivering the "promised" ...

ETFs pull away from $5bn mark

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
After close to 12 months around the $5 billion mark, projections for local ETF industry growth are strong, according to a review from BetaShares. Approximately $60 million of net inflows entered the Australian Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) market in March ...

Austerity's political pay-off

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
Deleveraging in US and Europe is going to be painful and will require courageous actions from politicians that run against the grain, according to head of global investment solutions at UBS. Deleveraging will mean years of slowed growth coupled with ...

Securitor advisers gain new access

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
Dealer group Securitor has launched a new investment research and strategy website for its advisers, offering equities, product and thematic market research to meet the needs of its adviser network. The new website will include a range of features such ...

Not enough US retail hedge funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
US hedge fund promoters that want to grow their businesses should consider developing products for the under serviced retail sector. "Globally, institutional capital invested in hedge funds and funds of funds represents about $1.1 trillion. However ...

Asia growth to transform business

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
Australian investors need to move on from just talking about China and India's economic rise and start gaming out what it specifically means for their portfolios and what the business threats and opportunities will be. Dr Anil K. Gupta, an emerging ...

Insurance industry prepared for black swan flock

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
The Australian insurance market is well equipped to cope with future natural disasters, while acknowledging that previous risk exposure had been under priced, according to Aon. The industry is coming to accept 'black swan' events as a far more common ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
US stocks plunged on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average sliding more than 300 points, as global stock markets were stung by fresh anxiety in the eurozone over Greece's bailout. The Dow fell 303.68 points (2.69 per cent) to close at 10,992.13. ...

Yellow Brick Road seals deal with Nine

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
Wealth management firm Yellow Brick Road will be promoted on television by the Nine Network at discounted rates after the media group formalised its purchase of 19.9% of the company today. Yellow Brick Road today announced it had entering into formal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
The Australian market is expected to open higher after US stocks rose in the last hour of trading after Google said its revenue hit a record last quarter. At 0735 AEST on the ASX 24 on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was up ...