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Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009

Australians really are a spoiled bunch. Give them bread and they ask for cake. Give them cake and they question why not the bakery instead. And while you're at it, throw in a coffee factory - nay, the whole plantation - but be careful not to spend too ...

Local super funds welcome Obama admin move

MICHAEL HOBBS | TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009

A local industry body representing $450 billion of super fund assets comments on the likely impact of stricter governance of the US finance sector, following reports that the Obama administration will soon impose tighter rules on credit default swaps ...

Trade and chat at CMC Markets

RUTH LIEW | THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009

Move over Facebook, a new social network program is in town - CMC Markets traders are now chatting, trading, and sharing their secrets of success with each other on the firm's Trading Social Network. CMC Markets first piloted its TSN April last year ...

Govt targets judge's super

ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008

The Government might have rejected a call to let employers swap employer contributions for extra take-home wages as a short term fiscal stimulus, but it hasn't stopped them threatening to slash non-contributory super paid to new judges. The Australian ...

Govt targets judge's super

ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008

Filled half-empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008

The Australian economy grew by 0.1 per cent in the third quarter - the slowest since December 2000. Is the glass half-full? Or is it half-empty? Gauging from the headlines that followed the release of the Australian National Accounts, the domestic economy's ...

You earn, I spend

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008

Just about five years ago in late 2003, then Australian Federal Treasurer Peter Costello flagged the possibility of retiring the Commonwealth government debt and effectively shutting down the country's bond market. While markets had no argument against ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP | FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008

The Australian sharemarket is expected to open in the red after Wall Street fell overnight again. At 0829 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange was down 163 points at 3,235. In news this Thursday, federal ...

Bail-out Plan B

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008

Has the US Treasury had a change of heart or merely trying to get on the good side of its boss-elect President Obama? The US$700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will no longer buy the TA (troubled assets) under the RP (relief program). ...

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 ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

ELIZA BAVIN

Global X has awarded a new custody and administration mandate for its Australian ETF business.

Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

KARREN VERGARA

Bell Asset Management has formally launched its Australian Small Companies Fund, which is run by former Tyndall Asset Management portfolio managers.

Former Australian Ethical finance chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI

The former chief financial officer of the ethical investment manager has joined a local finance company after wrapping up his tenure at AUB Group.

MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

KARREN VERGARA

MySuper assets are fast catching up to the $1.5 trillion Choice sector, hitting nearly $1.2 trillion in the March quarter.

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