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Up and over in the land downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
V for victory against the GFC. V for the V-shaped rebound in the Australian economy. V for 'very wrong' to those who continued to stick to their recession calls up to the very end. In case you missed it, the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday ...

Julius Baer splits AM and bank

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... at the end of this month. Despite this activity Julius Baer has continued to expand, buying Milan based asset manager Alpha SIM. The firm will merge with Julius Baer's private client business Julius Baer SIM. Credit Suisse Asset Management was one of ...

Stocks and bonds agree on recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Similar economic news, opposite Wall Street reaction. Are equity investors still decoding the economic tea leaves or just marching to the beat of their own drum? For how could Wall Street have exactly opposite reactions to almost similar indications ...

SimCorp to award excellence in risk management

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009

AFA conference to focus on leadership

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) highlights the importance of strong leadership skills at this year's conference, with keynote speakers including Darren Flanagan, the man behind the Beaconsfield mine rescue and Peter Baines, who helped lead ...

Mixed reaction on shorting ban lift

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
From applause to criticism, industry reactions have been mixed towards ASIC's announcement today that it had lifted the ban on covered short selling of financial securities. ASIC today lifted the ban which was first put in place on 21 September last ...

Regulators call for better OTC derivatives processing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
APRA, ASIC and the RBA have released a report that identifies where major fund managers and super funds can improve in terms of how they manage OTC derivatives in the wake of the credit crisis. This month the regulators and the RBA released the findings ...

Plum members avoid switching

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Bucking the trend of high volumes of super members switching to cash, Plum Financial Services has reported that less than 2 per cent of its assets were switched to cash in the last 12 months despite the market crash as members hang on to investments. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
The Australian share market had fallen more than one per cent at noon on Friday, following a night of similar losses on Wall Street. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 42.4 points, or 1.11 per cent, at 3,771.5, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

VicSuper seeds $150m low carb fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Super fund VicSuper continues to take the front step in addressing the global carbon emissions challenge when it awarded Vanguard an initial $150 million mandate to invest in stocks that generate the same returns as the market but with half the carbon ...