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HNW shell shocked about nest eggs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
A Fujitsu survey found high net wealth Australians are seven times more concerned now about their retirement savings than they were a few months ago as equity markets continue to crack their nest eggs. Martin North, Fujitsu managing director of consulting ...

Sisyphian challenge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... liquidity squeeze turned into a financial crisis that claimed the world's financial markets. Financial market loses eroded wealth and confidence and is now shrinking economic activity around the planet. And since we are into metaphors, perhaps authorities ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... of falling consumer spending, business bankruptcies, declining exports and general loss of confidence due to diminishing wealth -- as property and asset markets dive -- too much to bear. This is why in a week where other central banks were cutting interest ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... cheaper Australian currency will also provide support going forward as Australia's trading partners, faced with diminishing wealth, finds better value in the country's exports of goods and services. Yes, Australia will go into recession - if all things ...

More planners to use SMAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
More than 80 per cent of financial planners and other wealth management professionals who offer separately managed accounts (SMA) to their clients see SMAs as a tool to generate a new revenue stream for their business, a survey shows. The findings came ...

Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... Not when businesses faces falling demand for their products at home and abroad. Not when the world population's general wealth is shrinking. National governments and central banks have pulled out all the stops to try and reverse - or at the very least ...

The other race

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... proved it is 'The Race that Stops the Nation.' While it provided a welcome respite to investors suffering almost daily wealth erosion - particularly those who bet big on the Cup...and won - the fact is the credit market catastrophe, if it remains unresolved ...

It's the war, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... decline in consumer spending since 1990 and the biggest fall in 28 years. No doubt, tighter lending standards, the reverse wealth effect - as property and equity prices fall - and a deteriorating labour market have caused this massive retrenchment in ...

Dubai to swoop in bad market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
The Dubai International Financial Sector governor believes the global financial crisis will strengthen the United Arab Emirates' position as an economic and investment hub. Speaking at the Financial Times /Dubai International Financial Centre World ...

Private equity crunch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... development capital, the market segment that will suffer the most in the current crisis. The same cannot be said about the entire wealth management industry. Thomson Reuters data show that Australian private equity deals have grown 83 per cent year-on-year ...