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Australia faces financial hub contender

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
Singapore is introducing new tax incentives for investment funds to build up its position as an international finance powerhouse - a move which could pose a serious threat to Australia's hopes of becoming Asia's financial hub. The Singaporean government ...

Malaysia tops shariah funds list

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Malaysia may have overtaken Saudi Arabia to boast the highest number of shariah funds in the world - but the Asian Islamic country has a long way to go in building up assets for each of its 145 funds, according to a new report. November figures from ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Yes we can! And again, Yes we can! In trying to make this slogan come true, US President Barack Obama has taken the concept of moral hazard from Wall Street to Main Street. Just one day after he signed his autograph on a piece of paper turning the US$787 ...

More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
The prices of local shares, property and commodities will fall further in the coming months before the government's stimulus package kicks in and takes the market out of the doldrums, said the panelists of an industry briefing held this morning. Speaking ...

TTR strategies need more attention

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
Investors still lack awareness of transition to retirement strategies while many others view super as a "poor investment", according to financial advisory firm HLB Mann Judd. According to Michael Hutton, wealth management partner at HLB Mann Judd, most ...

APRA to review exec pay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Australian financial services firms saved by the government deposit guarantee are about to discover the political price they will be expected to pay with APRA announcing details of its executive remuneration monitoring program. The irony however is ...

Four in five happy with their super: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
The global financial crisis prompted only 13 per cent of Australians to change the way they save for their retirement and a majority 80 per cent are happy with the performance of their super fund, a new industry survey shows. The findings were from ...

Depression talk ill-informed and ignores history

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
2008 is not 1929 and the world is not about to see the next Great Depression anytime soon, explained James Swanson, the chief investment strategist of US-based MFS Investment Management. Visiting Australia late last month, Swanson said the rounds of ...

First home buyers tap $21k bonus

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
If website clicks are anything to go by, then the latest data from X Inc Finance suggests first home buyers are wading back to the market thanks to new government incentives. Jennifer Nielsen, chief executive of Loan Market Group, which includes X Inc ...

CHOICE selects top FHSAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
AMP Bank, NSW Teachers Credit Union (NTCU) and Victorian Teachers Credit Union (VTCU) are the three institutions that received the thumbs up in a new report on First Home Savers Accounts (FHSAs) by consumer body CHOICE. FHSAs are deposit savings accounts ...