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Bill failed, what next?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
The Australian stockmarket lost $45 billion by noon after the US Congress rejected the proposed bail-out package, but local investment experts argue that we are nowhere close a doomsday scenario, in fact quite the contrary. Sharemarket expert Dale Gilham ...

Game on for sustainability

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... index is heavily weighted towards financial companies, which account for more than 56 per cent of the index followed by 'basic materials' at more than 22 per cent and 'industrials' at almost 6.5 per cent. For example, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Westpac ...

Super cushions local asset managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
The country's compulsory super will keep the investment management arms of the major banks chugging along despite the current market crisis - unlike their European and US counterparts which are under the hammer, if not already sold, as their parent ...

CSS Super members in the driver's seat

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... minimum 5 per cent of their after-tax salary into their CSS super. Instead, they can continue to contribute 5 per cent (as a basic contribution) or choose to contribute nothing at all (0 per cent). If the member decides not to make any changes, their ...

Saving Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
The financial stability of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would have to be protected at all costs, as their falls would cause cataclysmic effects not just in the US but the rest of the world, including Australia. Speaking at the 2008 Russell Australasian ...

Weak growth confirms RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... per cent in the March quarter. The details of the National Accounts show what the RBA fears the most. Dearer petrol and basic commodity prices, higher rental and mortgage rates and declining asset markets are having a negative impact on household disposable ...

Pengana wins ex-Rubicon investors

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
Ex- Rubicon investment managers Antonio Meroni and Tony Wolfe's have brought more than just their expertise to Pengana when they joined in May - they have also ferried across some of Rubicon's largest global institutional investors keen for a slice ...

US pension funds review securities lending

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
... investment returns. Now that the bubble has burst, institutions are returning to the practical steps that should be part of basic due diligence." On the upside, a majority 80 per cent of those surveyed did say that they were satisfied with the response ...

AXA direct property assets tops $900m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
AXA has slashed its listed property trust allocation from 40 per cent to 7.5 per cent and diverted the funds to more than double its direct property assets to $942 million. The group's wholesale Australian property fund has amassed a direct property ...

FPA rejects tax bill changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... proposed Bill requires financial planners to undergo additional training and become registered tax agents in order to provide basic tax advice. This additional requirement could boost compliance costs for financial advisers and therefore increase the ...