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SWFs finalise principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... of SWFs in the context of the past year's turmoil in advanced economy financial markets has been notably positive. If anything, the funds have shown that they can play a shock absorbing role in global financial markets."

US payrolls jitters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
Here we go again. If the overnight performance of the European and US stockmarkets are anything to go by, Asian and Australian equities are in for another rough trading day. Wall Street and European bourses tumbled last night as fears of a global slowdown ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
... local equities in morning trade. "Obviously that is having an impact on what is going on, with the market hardly doing anything," Mr Chatterton said from Brisbane. "We are hardly going to have any big movers out there." "A bit of a limp day. Overnight ...

Credit investors put bond issuers on notice

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... Nine was sold and when private equity bought Investa, investors have been compensated. We were always the last to know anything that was going on at Wesfarmers."

Barclays UK takes life insurance online

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... investment products, said the firm was not looking to launch a direct to market online insurance product. "We will not do anything that's hurts our advisers, it's an important access area. We'll compliment it with distributing products with telemarketing ...

Financial woes continue to haunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
... stockmarket is set for another down day of trading and bond yields will head lower if Wall Street's overnight perfromance is anything to go by. US share prices slipped while bonds were higher on the back of more news of losses in the financial sector. ...

More Fed pump-priming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... should continue its positive performance today while bond yields should pick up if Wall Street's overnight performance is anything to go by. Wall Street closed higher overnight as an unexpectedly strong US employment report and an announcement by the ...

Who's next to confess?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... could deteriorate further. In his words, the Fed governor said, 'I don't think the headwinds have diminished. In fact, if anything, I think they are picking up a little steam,' Today, markets will receive updates on Japanese employment and retail sales. ...

Calliva suspends new loans to SMSFs

THE SHEET  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... renew Calliva's senior facility in its current form. "The problem is that in this market it is difficult to term out anything that is not a AAA-rated security," he said. Scully said he was in discussions with a couple of other funders and hoped to announce ...

Proactive planners ease client concerns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... it easy to understand. After that we did get some phone calls but it was more about clarifying what the content than anything else," said Browne. "We referred to study which found that if you pulled your money after a correction, what long term financial ...