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I'll have what she's having

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
'When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.' ~George Pataki It is looking like the 'plucked from the air' amount of US$700 billion for the US Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) would ...

Time to buy Aus shares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
It's time to invest in Australian shares and stop waiting on the sidelines for volatility to subside, according to Paul Fiani, head of equities at Integrity Investment Management. "A year ago taxi drivers were giving you stock tips, which is always ...

Fortis bank $19.5bn bail-out 'stabilises' FIA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... European banking giant Fortis will not affect the operations of its local subsidiary, Fortis Investments Australia, nor put FIA's $6 billion in funds at risk, said FIA's chief executive Ian Manton-Hall. The fate of Fortis took a sharp turn for the better ...

Reporting season hikes A-REITs worth

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
APN Funds Management (APN FM) is trumpeting the return of value to the A-REIT sector, but the fund manager also singled out this year's reporting season as the crux in restoring full investor confidence in the asset class. The $4.3 billion APN FM singled ...

End of the world

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
Less than a week after the Jeddah oil summit and oil prices have broken through the US$140 barrier, share markets have plunged and we are being warned the sub-prime fiasco still has two years left to run. And if that wasn't enough, president of OPEC ...

Recovery in securitised assets mask long term problems

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
The amount of securitised assets recovered slightly in the March quarter to reach $264 billion but the bounce back masks bigger problems confronting the sector. Securitised assets during March increased 1.4 per cent however compared to the 4.5 per cent ...

Ex-UBS director joins Integrity

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
Integrity Investment Management has appointed ex-UBS Global Asset Management associate director Craig Shaw as head of retail. Shaw will be responsible for client relationship management and business development at Integrity. He joined Integrity Investment ...

US Treasury to announce regulatory overhaul

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
The US Treasury Department has proposed sweeping changes to how their financial markets should be regulated by consolidating its huge number of regulators and bringing practices up top date to what happens around the world. The New York Times has reported ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
The Australian sharemarket was weaker at noon after US stocks fell overnight after a double dose of lacklustre economic news on the housing market and the factory sector dampened investor optimism. At 1207 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down ...

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
Postmortem into what caused the sub-prime fiasco is pointing the finger at the investment banks, hedge funds and even the apparent hero Dr Greenspan. The main problem, according to a just-released book titled The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money ...