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China-Gillard tug o' war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... cent. This pace is not far above the disappointing annual rate in spending witnessed at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008. Australian retailers are suffering from competition from cheap imports and online shopping -- resulting from the ...

Super funds returns on upwards trend

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... in fund returns, being the way they jump around, that worries most consumers." Dunnin said prior to the Global Financial Crisis three years ago super funds were regularly achieving 10-15% returns but now they are hovering in the 5-10% zone. The time ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... default in Greece could lead to similar problems in other eurozone economies and potentially cause another global financial crisis. Shares in European banks, many of which are exposed to Greek debt, have been hit hard in recent days as the Greek crisis ...

NAB sued over financial advice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... Credo European Property Trust, according to law firm Slater & Gordon. They then lost $1.7 million in the global financial crisis. The couple claim they told the planner that they did not want to risk their capital, but the NAB had painted them as aggressive ...

Customers rate SMSFs the best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... funds, compared to customers of the Big Six Retail Funds," noted the Roy Morgan Research report. "After the global financial crisis satisfaction with the superannuation performance, as would be expected, declined considerably through to late 2009. This ...

MTAA Super strikes back against claims of unhedging

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... newspapers earlier this week. "The Trustee appropriately reviewed its currency hedging strategy during the Global Financial Crisis. It sought and received advice and resolved to appoint an external expert currency manager to manage the fund's currency ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... slump in the first three months of 2011 was bigger than the 0.9 per cent contraction in the midst of the global financial crisis in the last quarter of 2008 nor that it was the worst outcome since the last recession in 1991 shook financial markets' conviction ...

Hyperion scoops $600m mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... Hyperion's investment team and their strong long-term investment record including their ability to navigate the global financial crisis." The $17 billion construction industry fund issued a total of six mandates in the year to December worth $743 million ...

Investors leave mortgage funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... sector report, released today. Peter Ward, fund services analyst for S&P, said it was a hangover from the global financial crisis. "The saga started in 2008... it's a carry over from that period," he said. While some investors wanted to stay in the mortgage ...

Straus-Kahn stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... of a 32-year old hotel maid at the Hotel Sofitel on Times Square, New York. I linked this fiasco to the global financial crisis because what else is there that could drive the head of the most powerful international money institution of the world but ...