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ETF assets to reach $1.6 trillion

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Exchange traded funds (ETF) assets are set to eclipse the $1.6 trillion mark in the next two years - $500 billion more than its current assets, new research by Strategic Insight shows. Assets in global exchange traded funds raked in more than $1.1 trillion ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
What happens in Rome stays in Rome. Or so it should have been were it not for the sudden resignation of Japan's Finance Minister following the meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bankers on Valentine's Day. Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi ...

In planners we trust

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
Trust and familiarity are often more valued by clients than advisers' technical expertise particularly in today's volatile market, according to Professional Investment Services. Tom Lawton, ex-Wallabies player and group manager, international business ...

Storm takes fight online

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
Storm Financial founders Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis have opened a new website to fight and defend against various claims regarding their now-collapsed business. The website, www.cassimatis.com.au, features a quote; "My crusade is to find justice ...

ASIC blocks $2m Storm bonus

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained a court order preventing a payment of $2 million from Storm Financial to a bank account in which is held by Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis. The sum was transferred from a Storm ...

Merry Christmas retailers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... package. The Federal Opposition has been making noises ever since the A$42 billion was first announced. It threatened to block the passage of the legislation, claiming that the money could be spent elsewhere and that last year's A$10.4 billion pre-Christmas ...

Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
Australians really are a spoiled bunch. Give them bread and they ask for cake. Give them cake and they question why not the bakery instead. And while you're at it, throw in a coffee factory - nay, the whole plantation - but be careful not to spend too ...

AUI trust posts solid returns, holds value

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... AUI's Retirement Living Service, which provides accommodation and related services to retirees, recently subdivided the block and subsequently sold the aged care facility business to the Healthcare Property Trust. This is in an effort to raise funds ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... plan negotiated by the White House is being opposed by a group of conservatives led by Sen. John Ensign, who threatened to block the measure. In preliminary closing figures, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 70.09, or 0.81 per cent, to 8,761.42. ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Two million jobs and counting. This is the number of Americans that will bring increased profits to Campbell Soup come Christmas time. And because these ordinary taxpayers' have to give part of their now non-existent income and drastically reduced wealth ...