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Make love not leverage

... pending home sales rose by 2.1 per cent inn February after falling by 7.7 per cent in the previous month. In addition, the NAR affordability index rose to a record high 173.5 during the month. No one paid any attention to pending home sales data back ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly higher after US stocks recovered late in the trading session on positive economic reports. Gold miners may gain on the rise in the precious metal and energy stocks may decline after the oil price ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
So it was, so it shall be. The odds - the Dow fell in 12 out of the past 16 US Presidential Inaugurations - have prevailed. Now it's 13 out of 17. The Dow fell by 4.1 per cent and the S&P 500 dropped by 5.3 per cent as Barack Obama is confirmed as the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
The Australian stock market is expected to open flat after US stocks closed mixed on Tuesday. At 0816 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March Share Price Index futures contract was steady at 3,623. In economic news today, the Australian Bureau ...

Introducing life cycle insurance: REST

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
REST Superannuation has revolutionised life insurance in super by introducing a "life cycle" approach to its death cover - breaking away from the traditional fixed cost or "$1 a week" insurance model. Almost one million active members of the $13 billion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open weaker after US stocks fell overnight. At 0810 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December Share Price Index futures contract was down 36 points at 3,505. In economic news, the Australian Industry ...

Daily unit pricing not the answer: Henaghan

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Pricing assets daily is counter intuitive to a super fund's aim of generating long term returns, according to Sean Henaghan from AMP Capital Investors. Henaghan, an investment director at the global investment firm, told an Investment Management Consultants ...

Three rich beggars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
'There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington D.C. and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands.' This was US Democratic representative Gary Ackerman's comments to the CEO's of the big three US carmakers ...

Citibank narrows retail product

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
Citibank has cut commercial mortgage lending and also personal instalment loans from its product offering. The bank will continue to concentrate on residential home loans and credit cards. Steve Ramage, head of mortgages, said the bank needed to invest ...

Property downturn over: RP Data

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
The bear run of the residential property market is at an end, marked by the surprise slashing of interest rates by the RBA this week, claims RP Data. According to national RP Data property research director Tim Lawless, the residential market has now ...