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Cash is still king

... ten respondents predict the market will end flat or down less than 10 per cent. The proposed acquisition of Bear Stearns at fire sale prices only reinforced the bearish sentiment. "The Australian share market has a disproportionate weighting to financial ...

S&P hits back on CalPERS' claims

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
Standard & Poor's has returned fire at claims by CalPERS that the global rating house practiced a "dual rating system" which placed municipalities to a higher standard than corporate issuers. US pension fund giant CalPERS recently flagged the current ...

Future Fund to adopt ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
The Federal Government's Future Fund has confirmed it will be looking at environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues as part of its investment strategies in 2008. The government-backed $59.6 billion fund was highlighted by Australian Conservation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... the March SPI futures index, and after New York staged a late rally to come back from falls that followed the Bear Sterns fire sale. In London overnight, base metals were significantly lower. At 0726 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share ...

MillhouseIAG buys Huntley

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
Homegrown private equity fund manager MillhouseIAG Ltd has snapped up boutique fund manager the Huntley Group, enabling the firm to expand its international fund management business. MillhouseIAG founder and chief executive David Millhouse said the ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... (ACCI) in a statement last week asked the government to lower personal tax rates which surely would only put more fuel on the fire in an environment where retailer Harvey Norman just declared a 70 per cent lift in half year profits driven by insatiable ...

Property back to fair value

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... of those securities into Australian-centric real estate would arguably be a case of leaping "from the frying pan into the fire". "What we're concerned about is rising cap rates or falling asset values in Australia across the board - commercial, retail ...

Deadly Trojan targets 400 banks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
Imagine logging in to your bank account online, making a transaction, then finding out that you've just given your details - and funds - to a nameless hacker. Now imagine the Trojan targeting the users of 400 banks worldwide, including several institutions ...

Fundies find a loophole in money laundering law

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... monitoring and reporting obligations before. In terms of time and effort it has been bigger than Y2K." Austrac has been under fire for most of this year for not being staffed adequately and not being ready to meet its obligations as a regulator. A source ...

Internet threat gets mobile

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
Financial institutions need to understand that the use of USB memory sticks could lead to information leakage and increases the risk of employees inadvertently downloading malware onto their systems, according Larry Bridwell, vice president global security ...