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Right advice delivers $1.7m

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
Quantifying the actual value of professional financial advice is no simple feat, but the latest case studies by the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) found eight Australians reaped a total $1.7 million in savings and profits with the ...

Skandia extends services to retirees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
Skandia has developed a new wholesale retirement product, Wholesale Retirement Solutions, which covers the accumulation, transition to retirement and income stream phases for retiring investors at wholesale fees. Skandia Wholesale Retirement Solutions ...

Asia Pac equities in the red

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
The recent declines in Asian equities may have opened a myriad of investment opportunity windows globally, but investors should adopt a cautious approach to avoid being stung by poor quality investments. Following the recent declines in Asian equities ...

CAAM capitalises on crisis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) is steering its alternative investment strategies towards credit markets to capitalise on mispricing within the sector. Carl Dunning-Gribble, chief investment manager in alternative investments at CAAM, said the ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... lost $1.39 to $34.17, Lihir had shed 17 cents to $3.29 and Newmont had dropped six cents to $5.59. Energy stocks were in the red at 1215 AEDT with Woodside Petroleum down $1.18 to $46.78, Santos down 51 cents to $12.61 and Oil Search off 13 cents to ...

Fed Govt creates financial services task force

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... of financial services disclosure requirements is the first instalment in the Rudd Government's deregulation agenda. Cutting red tape will reduce costs for business, investors and consumers." Sherry said unreadable disclosure statements could be a factor ...

QIC tops up Pengana mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
QIC has boosted its mandate to Pengana Capital's Global Volatility Fund by $111.5 million, three months after it gave the fund an initial $167 million fund injection. QIC now has $278.5 million invested in the Global Volatility strategy after the firm's ...

Unsticking the CAD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
The real story in yesterday's rates rise is that despite the surging economy making the rate rise necessary, the current account deficit (CAD) is still stuck on 6 per cent. According to the ABS, our CAD has been 5.5 to 6 per cent of GDP for the last ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... expires. Tungsten explorer Bighill Resources Ltd is due to list on the Australian stock exchange. The share market closed in the red on Tuesday, depressed by negative investor sentiment, after the Reserve Bank of Australia lifted official interest rates ...

JPMorgan Chase launches IPO STRATAS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
JPMorgan Chase has developed IPO Target Redemption Strategic Asset Securities (IPO STRATAS), a structured product based on an index that returned seven times more than the S&P 500 in the past five years. IPO STRATAS was created with Citibank and is ...