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ASIC lines up Macquarie Private

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... with breaches by some of its financial advisers. In 2006 ASIC brought the first large enforceable undertaking of its kind to bear against AMP after finding 93% of client funds administered by AMP advisers had been placed into AMP products, in many cases ...

100% world recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... world heads into recession. Then again, this is the same doctor who said pronounced on 8 June 2012 that, "I think a global bear market has begun and we are going to go lower." The S&P 500 has gained 6.4% since then. Go figure. ================== You ...

Renewed appetite for Aussie stocks

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... Corbett said. Three new exchange traded products were listed on the ASX during July with two new bond funds and the first bear fund in Australia, designed to go up when the market goes down.

Fidelity calls rising tide for equities

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
Having been bearish on equities for the past 18 months, there is growing evidence for cautious optimism on the part of equity investors. Equities have been pushed down by fears of a European crisis, however equity markets have "switched out of panic ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... economic growth. And if the blahs fall short, there's always real action to fallback on. I would be really scared if I was a bear for no matter where I turn, everybody seems to be after my fur. ================== You can read Ben Ong's monthly economic ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... expectations the European Central Bank (ECB) would announce immediate monetary measures to ease the debt crisis failed to bear fruit. At 1020 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 41.3 points, or 0.97 per cent, at 4,228.2, while the ...

BetaShares launches BEAR Fund

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
BetaShares has launched an Australian Equities Bear hedge fund designed to generate returns even when the market is turning down. This will be achieved by utilising shorting strategies that are negatively correlated to a falling ASX 200, but without ...

AMP Capital, Aberdeen score Advance mandates

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
AMP Capital and Aberdeen Asset Management have won fixed income mandates from Advance, a specialist asset management business owned by Westpac's BT Financial Group. The mandates will form part of the Advance Australian Fixed Interest Multi-Blend Fund ...

Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... expanded by 4.3% as at the end of March quarter - the fastest rate since the third quarter of 2007. Yes, that was even before Bear Stearns got the wobblies and set off the GFC (though many will say it was Lehman's bankruptcy in 2008). And why not? Only ...

Resi property portal targets planners, SMSFs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
Residential property is an attractive asset class but choosing a property for a self-managed super fund (SMSF) is not as simple as choosing a property to live in or negatively gear yourself. SMSF investors need to factor in how their income and capital ...