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BTFG launches TV ads to ease investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... concerned investors contacting BT with 11,000 calls on Monday to its contact centre, higher then the centre received during the GFC. "We decided that we should contact all investors at the same time. We had clear evidence from the call centre of the ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... Ratings - later denied the rumour and re-affirmed France's 'AAA' rating. And so...we've come full circle back to the days of the GFC when speculation on who'll be the next big one to come a-tumbling down dominated the rumour mill. It was banks, mortgage ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... permanent phrase "for an extended period" when referring to the outlook for interest rates in its policy statements since the GFC to "at least through mid-2013" after last night's FOMC meeting. Yes folks, the fed funds target rate will remain at between ...

US ceiling raised but underlying reasons remain

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... with allowances to extend this to $16 trillion, but beyond the well publicised reasons for this mammoth amount of debt (the GFC, various wars and the bank bailout), the issues of social security and minimum wage need to be held accountable, said John ...

Super funds to provide standard risk measure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... 70-30, balanced options, growth, defensive but that balance is very problematic, people couldn't agree on what was what and the GFC really exposed that," said Graus. An obvious criticism of the new standard, which will see investment risk measured gross ...

Bonds eye off super funds

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... shares and there are easier to understand then bonds, but also there wasn't a good understanding in the role of bonds." "Post-GFC, the institutional market is looking at the demographical change of baby boomers entering retirement and they want more ...

Time for super to step up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... Financial Services Council in structural and regulatory reforms spurred on by the Global Financial Crisis. The importance of the GFC is that this crisis was not created by any external shock but by the system itself through poor regulation leading to ...

Russell adviser community moves online

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... different ways to their clients. "The elephant in the room is the client engagement piece, a lot of them were burnt during GFC and I think smarter advisers are now not trying to take responsibility for investment returns," John Nolan, Russell's practice ...

PIMCO urges SMSFs to get active

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... alternatives might be to the detriment of returns. "Given the dislocations and upheaval in global financial markets since the GFC, active managers are better placed to add value than they have been for a number of years," said Libby Newman, senior investment ...

The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... Just as its AAA rating of CDOs, mortgaged-backed securities and other structured investments back in the days -- when the GFC stood for Geelong Football Club and not the Global Financial Crisis - encouraged investors to go on a buying spree. And while ...