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Short selling faces revamp

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... up to curb sellers who they and the market believed sometimes intentionally failed to deliver short sold securities to a buyer as part of a scheme to manipulate the security's price or possibly avoid associated borrowing costs. But responding to growing ...

Better FHSAs needed for buyers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
Superannuation industry bodies AIST, ISN and IFF have banded together to propose measures tailoring First Home Saver Accounts to better aid struggling first home buyers. Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of AIST, said the scheme should be structured in ...

US property still has upside

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
US residential property may be in freefall but the institutional investment property market is quite another story, according to CB Richard Ellis Investors. In their "Navigating Stormy Seas: the US real estate investment outlook" report, Doug Herzbrun ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
Fighting inflation may be the government's number one policy fight right now, but another should be fighting contradictory policy suggestions and forcing retailers to pass on currency induced price cuts. Australia's major economic debate is how the ...

Money changes hands

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 FEB 2008
... intermediaries. In this environment the "one-size-fits-all financial services provider model does not suit multi-variant buyer demographics that are now accessible and accessing global markets. Emerging markets are opening, and the world's poor are increasingly ...

Councils take action on CDOs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... customers and people selling these packages didn't know what [the packages] themselves were worth. On the one hand you can say "buyer beware" - but on the other hand when things come unstuck, even the parties offering these packages may not know how ...

Fighting inflation to make housing affordability worse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
Housing affordability just seems to get worse, and our anti-inflationary strategies look set to make it worse. According to the Housing Industry Association (HIA), even despite slowing house prices last year, housing affordability still sunk to yet ...

AXA's succession solutions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
Financial advisors looking to sell their business must ensure it's operating successfully because inefficient practices risk being sold at almost 20 per cent below the industry average, an AXA report found. The 2008 AXA Succession Report was published ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
The Australian stock market had continued its bloodletting at noon, falling more than two per cent in response to more heavy falls on Wall Street overnight and investor uncertainty over a possible global economic meltdown. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher, taking its lead from Wall Street. At 0654 on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index was up 61 points at 6598. In corporate news today, Bank of Queensland holds its annual general ...