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Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
Market Movers Overnight 15 July "Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water." This was the movie JAWS 2's tagline back in 1978 and it aptly applies to the global financial markets current predicament. It may not have been a complete ...

This Week's Market Movers (14-18 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Macroeconomic indicators set for release this week are not expected to deviate from the ongoing global theme of slowing growth and higher inflation. Australia Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens address on the "Challenges for Economic ...

Trouble at Threadneedle Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
More signs that US problems have made their way into the UK came overnight. After signaling in recent weeks that it is more likely to follow the European Central Bank (ECB) and tighten monetary policy rather than ease, the Bank of England (BoE) succumbed ...

Plum reloads for HNW clients

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
Plum Financial Services relaunched its financial planning division, developed a pension product and revamped its website to better cater for high net worth (HNW) members. The firm's financial planning service, which includes 60 financial advisers, was ...

Businesses weighed down by choice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... because one employee chooses the fund is a very significant time waster for payroll. If the government really wants to cut red tape for business, this needs to go," said Low. The survey researched medium to large sized employers with formal payroll processes ...

Boost savings and cut interest rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
Boosting savings levels is not just about lifting individual retirement incomes but about making Australia more self reliant and less subject to volatile global economic forces, reveals new research just released by IFSA. The Investment and Financial ...

The house that Sherry built

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
The man who chaired the passage of the Superannuation Guarantee (SG) Bill 20 years ago is back in the limelight, this time with ambitious plans to dismantle the country's jerry-built superannuation system and replace it with a cheaper and more member-friendly ...

Aviva cuts super to pension admin time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Aviva Australia improved its online adviser software, n-link, to enable financial planners to set up pension accounts and allow clients to receive payments in three days, a fraction of the time needed on other platforms. Previously, financial advisers ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... its lowest close since April 15. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares slid 3.2 per cent, with all stocks in the main index in the red, as jittery investors dumped blue chips on fears of more losses at US financials and amid a lack of market-boosting steps from ...

Aust and HK strengthen retail ties

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Hong Kong and Australian retail fund managers will be able to sell their products to investors in each other's markets following ASIC's signing of a mutual recognition declaration with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). For the first ...