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Weight in gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
There's a new twist in the tale of what we thought to be the ended saga of the GFC. The US equity market's - and by extension most other stock market's - performance over the past few weeks perfectly underscored what I've been trying to convey in my ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... speaks to the Corporate Finance World 2009 conference on "Reconnecting Corporate Australia with Frozen Credit Markets through Sound Policy Initiatives". In companies news, Fairfax Media Ltd, Wesfarmers Ltd, PMP Ltd, IAG Ltd and Count Financial Ltd will ...

Costello lands MD role at advisory firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... the firm, said Costello will bring a unique perspective to BKK Partners' work. "Peter has an international reputation for sound economic management and policy development and continues to serve as a member of the independent advisory board of the World ...

Fidelity, Edinburgh and Sarasin win mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... will afford us the flexibility to optimise our style exposures, ensuring we can remain responsive to the market and deliver sound investment returns over the long term for our members," said Hicks. The appointments bring the total number of international ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... way up." Research in an IMF working paper released on Thursday found that, although the positions of Australian banks were sound, they still faced potential losses of up to two per cent of total loans through corporate and household defaults, The Australian ...

Shadow of a doubt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
... is slowly creeping back into market consciousness? Sure, Wall Street jumped last night but why didn't the justifications sound as convincing as say, back in the first half of the year, when green shoots were all the rage? The S&P 500 spiked by 1.5 per ...

Up, down and sideways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
Ouch! This is the sound Australian exporters must be making these days, quickly followed by a groan when they read what this fiscal year has in store for them. Exports according to ABARE. The Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics (ABARE) ...

FTSE and ASFA set after-tax world alight

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
Index provider FTSE and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) have created a series of indices that will, for the first time, compare fund manager performance on an after-tax basis, following calls from super fund trustees that ...

Not bullish enough, maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Have you heard the latest gossip? Yes, that one. Australia's economy has now left the gloom and doom of the global financial crisis behind and is now walking into the gloom and doom of rising interest rates. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will ...

Capital protection should be core to satellite

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... financial products with capital protection in 2005, a time when the bull market would have made paying a premium for the feature sound silly. But Rumble's clients, mainly high net worth investors and self-managed super funds (SMSFs), were duly rewarded ...