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Govt closes in on phoenix super dodgers

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
The Federal Government is moving to protect employees from losing their super to 'phoenix' companies, including making directors personally liable, after releasing draft legislation and calling for submissions from the industry. Assistant Treasurer ...

Rambo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
United we stand, divided... the euro's sunk! Rambo. What was Germany thinking, going it alone to battle the battalions of speculators determined to burn the euro to the ground? Germany banned the naked short selling on European government bonds, shares ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket was moderately higher at noon, buoyed by the banks and energy stocks. At 1205 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 21.2 points, or 0.44 per cent, at 4806.9, while the broader All Ordinaries had added 20.6 points, or ...

Up and over in the land downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... rebounded by 0.4 per cent in the March quarter. According to some media headlines this was a 'shock rise'. Others used the word 'dodge' to describe Australia's escape from R. 'Shock' perhaps is a good descriptor. For only less than a handful truly believed ...

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 ...

No bad news is no news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... (FSIU) estimates full employment at 5.5 per cent. This is good news and reinforces our view that Australia may yet be able to dodge a recession - just like it did when it avoided the contagion from the 1998 Asian financial crisis and the 2002 US recession. ...

Aus FMs avoid Satyam scandal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
Australian fund managers with an eye on tech stocks dodged the Satyam scandal, with two local fund managers reporting they had no investments in the firm. Fiducian Portfolio Services investment manager, Conrad Burge, said the firm's India Fund did not ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... the global recession - if it continues to progress unabated - would slowly erode the economy. For how long Australia could dodge a recession depends on how long the rest of the world's recession lingers. Happy New Year? Perhaps in 2010.

Private equity dodges credit knockout

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
While August's credit crunch knocked the stuffing out of private equity, a knockout punch it was not, and the sector has bounced off the ropes back onto its feet to "float like a butterfly". Private equity's (PE) bruises from the global liquidity squeeze ...

Super dodges sub-prime correction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
The up-and-down market since June might have shaved 1.6 per net off 12 month super returns but over the more important three and five year results it's hardly made a dent, reveals SelectingSuper in their latest super fund performance tables for August. ...