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Fixed income not for everyone, yet: FIIG

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2006
When it comes to implementing fixed interest strategies there are products and services for the big end of town and daylight second. This is a problem FIIG Securities is hoping to fix. Jim Stening, managing director of fixed income specialist FIIG Securities ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2006
The stock market is expected to open lower after a weak lead from Wall Street after all three major US stocks indexes fell more than one per cent. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was DOWN 28 points to 5072 at ...

In office we trust: Macq

... assets value following recent revaluations. "Robust demand for high quality office property is evident across most of our major markets, helping us to deliver a 32.7 per cent equity return over the last year on this revalued portfolio," said Simon Jones ...

Time for another Wallis Inquiry

A leading academic has challenged the government's four pillar policy and called for a major review of the country's financial system akin to the scale of the 1996-97 Wallis Inquiry. Professor Ian Harper, executive director of the Centre for Business ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2006
... rally in tobacco stocks after a favorable court ruling in Florida. Altria's shares, along with those of at least two other major tobacco companies, surged to lifetime highs. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 73.48 points, or 0.66 percent, to finish ...

Parl committee to review entire super industry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2006
... become controversial because it is being chaired by the Liberal Party's Senator Grant Chapman, who in the past has been a major critic of industry funds. According to the committee's official documents, its objective is to review "the superannuation ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2006
... meet to decide on the buyback of shares from Orica. Yesterday, the Australian stock market closed a little weaker as the major banks ended mixed and the big miners weakened. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index fell 7.8 points to 5096.9 while the all ordinaries ...

RSE licensing transition grinds to a close

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2006
... regulated by APRA. Deputy chairman, Ross Jones, said 30 June marked the full implementation of one of the Federal Government's major superannuation reforms. "The superannuation industry is now licensed and prudentially regulated in a similar way to banking ...

CIOs lacking in IQ: Deloitte

The explosion of data and reporting requirements have prompted over two-thirds of large companies in Australia and NZ to hike up their IT spend and improve their company's 'information quality' or IQ, according to a Deloitte research. In a survey exploring ...

Reverse mortgages require proper planning: IAA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2006
... residential mortgages they still only represent about 1.5 per cent. This low value of the mortgage loan book is why most of the major lenders don't focus on reverse mortgages too much, creating the opportunity for the smaller operators who now dominate ...