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Planners to face cashflow crunch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... bankruptcy if they don't quickly adjust their cashflow needs to suit today's realities, and the earlier they talk to their banker about needing extra help, the better, said one banking specialist. Malcolm Arnold, head of NAB's financial planner banking ...

No meat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
'All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say Yo Goober! Where's the meat? I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.' Homer Simpson. Equity investors who came to US Treasury ...

2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Happy new year? Perhaps in 2010. The top central bankers meeting in Basel Switzerland came to the same conclusion yesterday. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet -- wearing his cap as head of the Bank of International Settlements - declared ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
The Australian sharemarket was slightly higher at noon, slipping back from early gains due to lower commodity prices and more bad economic news. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 21.2 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 3,555, while the broader ...

Free money can be costly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 23 NOV 2008
Inflation is out and deflation is the new black. If the prospect for falling prices becomes entrenched even free money will be expensive. Just over four months ago when crude oil reached nearly US$150 a barrel, many central bankers remained keenly focused ...

Climate change rhetoric yet to match investor reality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
While the financial services industry acknowledges the significant long term risks posed by climate change, there are still tremendous gaps between rhetoric and reality of what investors are doing about it, reveals a major study just released by Finsia. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... halt following the bank's announcement this morning of its agreement to purchase two local arms of UK bank HBOS, retail banker BankWest and wealth manager St Andrew's, for $2.1 billion. CBA last traded at $45.15. ANZ Banking Group dropped $1, or 5.51 ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
Equity markets rebounded sharply at the end of last week's trading as America's administrative, fiscal, monetary and regulatory authorities combined to wrench the claws off the credit squeeze that, last week, threatened to strangle the US financial ...

Legg Mason AM hires Titchkosky

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
... experience in financial services mostly in distribution roles. Before joining Legg Mason, he spent five years working at Banker Trust in Sydney as an institutional client manager and also worked in a similar role at Deutsche Bank for three years. More ...

A$ backpedals

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
The Australian dollar is fast becoming the victim of the worsening global growth outlook. The A$ fell by 1.6 per cent against the US dollar to around US$0.8550 and by 1.7 per cent vis-a-vis the yen to about Y93.50. Reports that the International Monetary ...