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Future still belongs to super

Despite record low returns and plummeting consumer confidence in super, the sector is still on track to grow into a multi-trillion dollar savings pool, just at a slower rate than previously estimated. Key research groups have released projections for ...

Storm subsidiary in liquidation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
Geelong-based Victorian Families Retirement Investment Group has been placed in "provisional liquidation" after its parent company Storm Financial called in the receivers. The group was placed into provisional liquidation by the Federal Court in Brisbane ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
US First Lady, Michelle Obama, shows us the future - and it does not look good. Wall Street and European equities tumbled again while we were sleeping. Part of the reason was disappointment that the much-awaited Chinese medicine was not potent enough ...

GFC in a fortnight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
The events of the past two weeks provided a microcosm of the on-going global financial crisis. The past 14 days capture the drama cum horror story that is being played out all around the world over the course of nearly two years. Fresh US data released ...

Allianz pays $500,000 to bushfire sufferers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Allianz Australia has paid out more than $500,000 to Victoria's bushfire victims and expects the total industry insured damage to reach $1 billion. By noon on Thursday Allianz had received 533 claims valued at more than $55 million, more than double ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
Well now, there we have it. If the January effect holds, US equity investors and the rest of us should all go on vacation and come back next year. The January effect postulates that the US stock market's performance for the entire month of January predicts ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
No prize for guessing but which G-7 country is suffering a worse hangover than the US? Clue: Its name also starts with the word United. In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that global growth would ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
Bad bank sparks optimism in US equities. Last night's decision by the US Federal Reserve's Federal Open Markets Committee to leave interest rates unchanged at virtually zero was a no-brainer. How can it do otherwise when the deepening financial and ...

IFSA calls for more frequent valuations of unlisted assets

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The Investments and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has released a new guidance note to members with 'best practice' recommendations on how to value unlisted assets in the wake of the global financial crisis. The guidance note specifies the principles ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
It's official. The US is - or has been - in recession since December 2007. Now what? The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that America's economy entered recession one year ago, despite not ...