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Jobs full recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
If you believe the mantra that any economic recovery would not be sustainable without employment growth, then there is now no doubt that Australia has one sustainable economic expansion going. The latest Labour Force, Australia released by the Australian ...

Mercer recommends pullback on global equities

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
Mercer is advocating investors move their global equities allocation back to benchmark weight for now as investment markets start to look fair value. The firm's January 2010 Dynamic Asset Allocation Market Valuation and Review, which the firm prepares ...

Investors gain sector-based ETFs

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
Institutional investors and financial planners will soon be able to access locally listed sector-based exchange traded funds (ETF) after Australian Index Investments (Aii) announced plans to launch six ETFs to the market in the next three months. The ...

Australia better than triple A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
"Absolutely not!" "That will never happen to this country." This was US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's when ABC News asked if he was concerned over a possible downgrade of America's credit rating. Worries about the US credit rating made the headlines ...

New chapter in savings after government guarantee ends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
The termination of the government guarantee on wholesale funding next month gives a strong signal that - as far as the Australian government is concerned - the financial crisis is over. But the move could pose new problems for financial services providers ...

Fin services execs rock on for charity

Some financial service professionals have a secret identity - analysts, fund managers, financial planners and business development managers by day, rockstars by night. The Financial Industry Community Aid Programme (FICAP), developed in 2006 by a group ...

Alternatives by any other name

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
Cerulli Associates has released new research that sharpens the definition of alternative investments, giving some fresh insight for investors that have long struggled with assessing the category The Boston-based firm consulted the US finance district ...

Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
Gold's spectacular run in 2009 appears to have run out of puff this early in the New Year. The yellow metal produced a hefty 27.1 per cent return last year as prices jumped from US$862.20 per ounce in January 2009 to a high of US$1,212.00 an ounce on ...

Schroders wins business from super portfolio review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
Schroder Investment Management Australia is benefiting from a market trend where some super funds are pouring more money into fixed income assets. Simon Doyle, head of fixed income and multi-asset at Schroders, said the fixed income division is receiving ...

Research finds country bias in pension asset allocation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Yes, we all live in a global community thanks to the web, but according to new research, where you live physically makes a big difference to your retirement savings. New research from consulting giant Towers Watson found that working in Paris, Tokyo ...