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Fear brings opportunity for the wise

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
Buy, sell, or run for the hills? January's Black Tuesday saw the axing of over $100 billion from the share market, but savvy investors will realise the ailing stock market still boasts lucrative investment opportunities. According to a report by wise-owl ...

Breakthrough on super fund fee processing

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
The days of snail-pace fees and charges processing may soon be over as superannuation administration software provider Syncsoft unveils promising results of their software's latest test runs. Syncsoft has been putting its CapitalX product under the ...

Even Macquarie has to pay for funding

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Macquarie Group chief financial officer Greg Ward reported yesterday that the group has been paying between 15 and 30 basis points more for funding since the credit market liquidity crisis hit in July. The group has had a strong flow of retail deposits ...

Interest rates - when economics meets politics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
When politics meets the economics of fighting inflation, people have a habit of making big statements that can sound alarmist. Causing the jitters is that the Reserve Bank Board is meeting today and by 2.30 pm we'll know if they've decided to raise ...

Tricom trading on unusual terms

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
Tricom Equities yesterday clarified a couple of details amid the market and media rumour storm connected to the group's surge in margin calls and its failure to settle stock market trades at the beginning of this week. Tricom said in a media statement ...

Client service before compliance: Bradley

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
The financial services industry should stop complaining about the burden of compliance and realign its practices with investor interests or risk further regulation, according to Graham Bradley, chairman of HSBC Bank Australia. "Increased compliance ...

Schroders shielded from LPT burnout

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
The Australian arm of international asset manager, Schroders, managed to buffer a portion of the credit and stockmarket crisis' impact when it sold all listed properties from its equity, balanced, and high yield funds over a year ago. Many investors ...

Back to school for MA providers

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
It may soon be school season for the Institute of Managed Accounts Providers (IMAP) members as the professional body prepares to uncover an education program to promote awareness of the managed accounts (MA) industry. According to Tracy Byrne, IMAP ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
Sub-prime was the American Dialect Society's 2007 word of the year but 2008's might be stagflation or even agflation, leading economists told today's Chief Economists Forum in Sydney. "There is a recession in US housing and it will get worse and even ...

Marsupials and the money market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
US-Aust interest rate differentials are now at a four year and almost all time high after this morning's US rate rise, putting even more pressure on central banks around the world to follow suit irrespective of local fundamentals. The US rate drop to ...