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Best financial advice tweet wins iPhone

Financial advisers will be unleashing their inner wordsmith at a conference that starts this weekend, with the chance to win an iPhone and the bragging rights of saying something profound (or witty) in less than 140 characters. This year, the Association ...

Bottoms up

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
Investors who view the world in macro terms often intuitively base their approach on a country's economic fundamentals. But new research suggests economic fundamentals may have little bearing on the performance of a country's stockmarket. According ...

Lower tax rate opens local property to foreign investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
CB Richard Ellis (CBRE ) and Echo Capital are targeting foreign investors with new property products in Australia after the May budget revised the national withholding tax rate to a more favourable 7.5 per cent. The new strategic alliance, MITSA (Managed ...

CFS GAM makes a case for raising govt debt

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
A leading strategist at one of Australia's largest investment managers argues the case for more government debt in Australia, and says that super funds could play a key role in absorbing higher bond issuance. Stephen Halmarick, head of investment research ...

Demystifying the "flash crash"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
A new theory argues that a large single trade in futures markets did not cause the "flash crash" of May 6 where US equity markets dramatically declined and recovered in a matter of minutes. In a recent inquiry into the abnormal market behaviour, the ...

Simulate my retirement: Telstra Super

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Telstra Super has launched a new online tool that goes beyond calculating one's retirement savings - introducing a new calculator that takes into account career breaks, having time off for children, and even a holiday to the Bahamas. The Telstra Super ...

Australia well behind in carbon pricing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
While Australian board responsibility may be high, standards fall behind global competitors in terms of carbon pricing and reduction targets. ASX100 companies executive responsibility for climate change reaches 94 per cent, ranking Australia third in ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
You can almost hear the Wall Street's collective hallelujahs after the US Federal Reserve reported an unexpected fall in industrial production. And no, that is not a typo. Wall Street was actually happy that it was disappointed. Huh? Yes, you read correctly. ...

The ever-shrinking pool of property fund managers

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
The pool of direct property fund managers in Australia has almost halved since the GFC, research shows. Mark Wist, of Melbourne-based Atchison Consulting, said that the number of property fund managers in Australia has fallen from 1,043 back in 2008 ...

Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
If you've already read the various reports on various websites and blogs trying to give meaning to Wall Street's slip overnight, you're now probably getting antsy pantsy that the bad ol' times have returned. This from The Age quoting "AAP, with Business ...