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Goodbye or good buy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
Time to say good buy or goodbye? Is this the best of times or is this the worst of times? The dreaded DD (double-dip) is back on the headlines. So is the R (recession). And with them comes Armageddon. I think Armageddon is most fitting in this case ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
The Australian share market dropped sharply on the open as nervous investors reacted to Standard & Poor's historic weekend downgrade of US sovereign credit. At time of writing the All Ordinaries Index had fallen 66.1 points or 1.59% to 4103.6 while ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Uh-oh, we're in trouble now - really big trouble -- or so they say. No use pretending not to know what I'm talking about, it's splattered all over the weekend news. S&P has dropped one A from the USA's AAA. I must admit, I too didn't know what to think ...

Planners urged to commit to the cloud

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
The use of cloud technology can open up more client bases for financial advisers, said an online portfolio provider. Executive director of Sharesight, Andrew Bird explained said the cloud computing process made it easier to connect different systems ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
Australian stocks plunged at the open after world markets fell sharply overnight and experts say more grief is to come. At time of writing, the All Ordinaries Index was down 173 points or 3.97% to 4179.9 while the S&P ASX 200 had given up 156.5 points ...

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
Yeouch! You can hear this cry from New York to Rio and old London town as financial markets received a battering. Somebody must have forgotten to tell the markets it's only August and not October. Equity markets, commodity markets and bond yields (bond ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
Australian shares were slightly higher at noon as they made up some of the ground lost on Wednesday, buoyed by a positive session on Wall Street. At 1200 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 1.1 points, or 0.03 per cent, at 4,333.9 ...

School's in for hedge funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
The University of Pennsylvania and New York University have been ranked the top universities for breaking into the US hedge funds industry. Global hedge funds are estimated to now be running $2 trillion worldwide. In Australia they run approximately ...

Tax rules set for TPD insurance deductibility

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
Proposed amendments to superannuation tax law will make it easier for self-managed super funds to work out their tax deductions for insurance, an SMSF expert has said. The draft legislation, released yesterday, specifies how much of the premium for ...

Government bowing to pressure on super risk commissions

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
The government looks set to revoke plans to altogether ban commissions on risk insurance within superannuation as it prepares to submit draft legislations on the future of financial advice in September. Speaking at the Financial Services Council conference ...