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Baby boomers eye income equity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Tyndall's newest offering, the six-month old Tyndall Australian Share Income Fund, has won a place in three major platforms - signalling baby boomers' increasing appetite for income equity strategies. Craig Hobart, head of retail at Tyndall Investment ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... ditching the country's bond market - we have more than enough, we don't need to borrow, we will have surpluses as far as the eye can see! The recession we had to have...again. There is no doubt that a recession - even a mild one - would take its toll ...

Australian RMBS gains appeal

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... they still retain very high ratings in contrast to their US counterparts, for instance. The rationale for these investors to eye Australian RMBSs lies in the fact that the products are usually fairly short dated while tending to yield larger margins ...

Advisers eye annuities

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
US-based advisers are increasingly looking at annuities as a strategy for their clients' rollover dollars, new research shows. A new Cerulli report on annuities and insurance shows that 20 per cent of registered investment advisers (RIAs) would consider ...

Budget me a recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
Good news begets good news. The number of headlines and stories trumpeting that we are getting close to the end of the global financial crisis tunnel had been increasing over the past few weeks. Equity markets like these. They rallied and continue to ...

Ipac buying spree continues

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
Ipac Securities is eyeing the Cairns, Canberra, Gold Coast and South Australian markets for their next acquisitions as the dealer group focuses on buying financial planning businesses specialising in retirees. Ipac Securities, which has $2.1 billion ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Surprise! The exclamation would almost always put a smile on anyone's face especially when the expected worst turns into a welcome better. Financial markets have been bombarded day after day after day with news that went from bad to worse to worst for ...

Trust eyes global investors

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
... one from the Everest Babcock & Brown Investment Trust in February and two from Allco Finance Group. Atkins however has his eye set on international institutional investors looking for REs as they ramp up foreign investment activities. "I suspect over ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... US. But woe to us Australians. We're doomed. We'll never make it. I am prepared to bet my right eyeball - even without the eye - that majority of the nations in strife would rather be having what we are having. So why is the Treasurer insisting on negating ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... small enough not to alarm markets that the domestic economy is in bigger trouble than it is and big enough to show that it's eye is still on the ball. Not happy Glenn. But it appears that the RBA's cut was not deep enough for Australia's biggest banks ...