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The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
It's another trading day for the record books on Wall Street. And this despite last night's weak reports - existing home sales fell by 1.2% to a less than expected 5.1 million annualised rate in June and the Chicago Fed National Activity Index remained ...

Submissions open to FPA Best Practice Awards

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has opened submissions to the Best Practice Awards and the FPA Honorary Awards. The Best Practice Awards recognise financial planners who adhere to the FPA Code of Professional Practice, which holds members to ...

Pengana eyes reporting season short-selling opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
The upcoming start of the reporting season serves up an opportunity to short companies likely to post disappointing results, according to Pengana Captial market neutral portfolio manager Phillip Boustridge. Market neutral equity strategies combine long ...

The game markets play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
"Your love keeps lifting me higher Than I've ever been lifted before... I'm gonna be at your side, forevermore." - Jackie Wilson Forget Jackie Wilson, Bipbop Benny's (Ben Bernanke) rendition of this tune last week sounded much, much better to financial ...

Hedge funds can reduce risk, despite reputation

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
Despite their growing popularity, particularly in the institutional space, hedge funds are still widely misunderstood by investors - they often have a reputation for being high risk, expensive, illiquid and difficult to access. But according to BlackRock ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
Was it good for you as it was for me? If you ask the financial markets this question, there surely would be a chorus of "yes it was!" They're still basking in the afterglow of Big Ben Bernanke's comforting words. In fact 'twas so good the Dow and the ...

Former Deutsche exec launches investment firm

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
The former head of equity derivatives and trading at Deutsche Bank Sydney, Peter Kennedy, has launched a new investment firm, Kennedy Investments. Kennedy Investment is based on a "cyclical" approach to investing, and will be open to individual investors ...

Facebook usage in Australia going up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
While there are concerns Facebook use in Australia may be slipping, the number of Australians using the social media platform actually jumped 2.75% in May to reach 12.2 million. LinkedIn was ranked a distant second with 3.7 million users and Twitter ...

Giant firms hold sway in infrastructure investment industry

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
The top 10 infrastructure fund managers by capital raised in the last 10 years accounted for 45% of the total raised by closed-ended infrastructure funds in the last decade, according to alternatives researcher Preqin. In its July edition of Infrastructure ...

CBA and HSBC change 'misleading' ads

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) and HSBC Bank have changed their advertising for structured products aimed at retail investors after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said they were potentially misleading. CBA's flyer compared ...