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ASIC adjusts redemption rules to help pensioners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
Financial watchdog ASIC said it may offer exemptions to existing government rules on 'frozen' mortgage funds that will allow mortgage fund operators to release funds to unitholders based on 'hardship grounds'. This relief will apply on a case-by-case ...

Select funds top Zenith review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
Select Asset Management topped Zenith Diversified Sector Review rankings with two funds rated 'highly recommended'. The firm's Select Defensive Portfolio and Select Growth Portfolio rank in the top three in a review that featured 15 other funds. The ...

October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
Financial market trading activity in October ended as it began - with so much volatility. Investors' consensus interpretation of economic reports, government announcements and central bank decisions determined entry and exit into equities, currencies ...

Aussies rethink super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
More than 20 per cent of working Australians have reduced their super contributions, changed their investment options or switched to a new super fund in the last three months, a new survey shows. Data from a Newspoll survey conducted on behalf of the ...

It's the war, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
In this current investment environment where fear reigns and uncertainty rules, it's the war that is lending a helping hand. The US Federal Reserve was unable to appease Wall Street yesterday with its 50 basis point reduction in the fed funds rate. ...

Aviva offers pensioner relief after redemption freeze

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
Aviva Australia has taken the extraordinary step to provide self-funded retirees and self managed super fund (SMSF) members on its Navigator platform their 'full' pension payments until the end of this year, when those payments would have been significantly ...

Banks to benefit from new FI interface

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
Two leading technology providers, Yieldbroker and Omgeo, have joined forces to offer a fixed income processing platform designed to eliminate manual errors and reduce post-trade operational risks. Electronic trading platform Yieldbroker, which counts ...

Seesaw Margery Daw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
'See Saw Margery Daw Johnny Wall Street shall have a new master He It shall earn but a penny a day Because he the Fed can't work any faster.' The market giveth and the market taketh away. Isn't it funny how yesterday's big rally on Wall Street was attributed ...

Daily funnies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
People don't need to read the funny pages anymore to get their daily amusement fix. They only have to read the way the media interpret the daily movements in the stockmarket. Wall Street rallied almost 11 per cent last night. Here is Bloomberg's interpretation ...

CFS, ING and APN freeze access to $6bn in capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Colonial First State, ING and APN Funds Management have joined the ranks of the country's leading mortgage funds that have suspended redemptions in the wake of the Government's guarantee on banking deposits, locking up more than $6 billion of investor ...