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Global re-regulation takes shine off investment banks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
Financial sector stocks are often seen as a safe investment with almost no downside regardless what happens to the world economy, but global re-regulation of finance is causing investment strategists to question whether the tide is turning. The re-regulation ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
The Australian Stock market is sharply lower, following a big selloff on Wall Street overnight. The market is around one per cent lower, with losses across the board, and especially in resources stocks. Wall Street fell heavily overnight, with the Dow ...

Van Eyk administrator optimistic of finding buyer

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
The future of van Eyk Research must be determined before the end of October but the stricken consulting and research firm's administrator remains optimistic a buyer will be found after receiving a number of expressions of interest. A committee of creditors ...

FEATURE: Quenching the thirst for income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
Low economic growth and wavering investment confidence in the wake of the global financial crisis has turned a stampede of investors onto the portfolio boosting benefits of income-paying investments. But understanding the many options available can ...

Hockey accuses Labor of making "a mess" of FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has lambasted the Labor party for "complaining about its own laws" and making "such a mess of the entire crisis of financial advice." Hockey accused Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen of being "too busy in engaging with unfair dismissal ...

Ratings downgrade to trigger hybrid sell-off

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
An impending Standard & Poor's downgrade of bank hybrids will drive the value of these investments, which have already seen recent falls, even lower, according to fixed income specialists FIIG Securities. The ratings agency said it will downgrade the ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
Cool it or we'll hose you down! That's the overriding message to the property market of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) September Financial Stability Review. While the Australian central bank also warned against rising property prices in March ...

Trilogy Funds makes $9m property investment

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Property fund manager Trilogy Funds will buy an $8.95 million commercial property in Melbourne's north-west. 271-279 Robinsons Road in Ravenhall was constructed in 2011 by Pellicano Group as part of their northwest Orbis Business Park. The three-level ...

The ECB can't make the horse drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Just a few percentage points are all it took for the Australian equity market to get into what the financial presses call the "Beijing bounce". Two percentage points above the previous month and five percentage points more than consensus expectations ...

Dover in search of compliance staff

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Dealer group Dover Financial Advisers has appointed a new executive to the compliance team and identified the need for at least two more to accommodate advice firms' growth. According to the latest Rainmaker Advantage report from March 2014, Dover is ...