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Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
"...the United States has no better friend than Australia." This was US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressing young Australians at the University of Melbourne yesterday. Her statement was made in the context of America and Australia's unbending ...

Bell IXL eyes India Equities

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
National Stock Exchange-listed boutique investment firm, Bell IXL Investments, has made a takeover bid for troubled listed investment company India Equities Fund (INE). Massimo Livio Cellante, managing director of Bell IXL, said in a letter to INE shareholders ...

Workers to wear SG rise: Shorten

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
Superannuation minister Bill Shorten has put himself and the government on a collision course with the union movement following repeated statements that the SG increase will not be funded by employers but by employees. Speaking yesterday at the OECD/IOPS ...

Griffith resigns from Count Financial

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Following the surprise resignation of long-time employee Rachel Griffith from Count Financial this month, the group said it hopes to recruit a new research and product manager by December. Count Financial issued a brief ASX statement last Friday stating ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
Heard at the G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju: blah, blah, blah... and more blah, blah, blah. As it always is when top authorities of the top nations meet, there's going to be too much chatter and too little done. Financial markets were right to expect that ...

Lower fees or lose advantage: ACTU

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
The ACTU has called on industry funds to keep lowering their fees or risk losing one of their key competitive advantages over retail funds. Tim Lyons, assistant secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions said one of the top challenges facing ...

RBF-Tasmania overhauls executive structure

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
Six months after Philip Mussared became chief of the $3.4 billion RBF-Tasmania, the fund is undergoing a restructure which involves a nationwide search for six key executives, including a chief investment officer. The Retirement Benefits Fund of Tasmania ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
Don't fight the Fed! This adage has been with us for some time now and it's back again doing the rounds in the financial markets. Yes, Virginia. The chorus for QE2 keeps growing louder that Wall Street - and the world - appears to be just waiting for ...

SuperSA offers members IFFP services

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... services had been "low", with existing relationships with planners believed to be a contributing factor. Also in January, a secret "shadow shopping" exercise on the services provided by IFFP advisers found that they were rated less than IFAs and bank-aligned ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
All dressed up and nowhere to go. Yup! Wall Street went nowhere alright. A day before last night's Federal Open Market Committee Meeting (FOMC), Wall Street was all prepped, seemingly ready to take it all, whatever the Fed decides - or more, importantly ...