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DIY investors all cashed up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
Self managed super fund (SMSF) investors may not have a crystal ball on hand but a new survey found that many of them sold out of property and equities well before the July/August market correction. A joint study of more than 2,100 SMSFs back in May  ...

Bear bargains and ambulance chasers

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
While the past couple of months produced an abrupt reversal of easy credit in global markets, in an investor version of ambulance chasing, bargain hunters are gathering around sub-prime casualties. Bear Stearns, the second biggest underwriter of US ...

Reverse mortgages not thicker than blood

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
Parents who use a reverse mortgage to lend funds to their children could face losing part of their pension on a technicality, said Louise Biti, head of technical services at Asteron. "Children in a great deal of debt may place pressure on their parents ...

Little fish and the big picture

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
The past five weeks has given some investors a classic lesson in the difficulty of timing markets. Expectations of more bad news saw the bears in a sell-off before being forced to buy back in as shares rebounded - a turn around that has enabled shares ...

Margin loan changes more than marginal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
Changes are afoot in margin lending with some product providers adding flexibility to their offering while others are clamping down and clipping their client's wings. "There is a fair bit of change happening in the industry and it seems to be happening ...

Living in a volatile world: Pengana

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
Living in interesting times means now may be the time to focus on volatility itself instead of just traditional performance measures, said Alvin Wilkinson, principal portfolio manager of the new Pengana Global Volatility Fund that is due to launch in ...

Encrypt your email: Tumbleweed

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
Finance companies may be providing adequate internet security in their businesses but new threats continue to emerge that will constantly put staff internal and outgoing emails at risk, warned an internet security expert. "Finance companies need to ...

Australia versus economic escargot

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
France may be broke according to its Prime Minister, who has been airing his financial dirty linen in Corsica, but Australia by all reports is a fiscal high achiever. During a trip to Corsica, France's Prime Minister, Francois Fillon made the unpopular ...

CBA counting on NAB and Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
National Australia Bank and Westpac may not be that likely to wind up their contract to source stockbroking services from IWL even once Commonwealth Bank takes control of the supplier of broking technology solutions. That, at least, is the view of the ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
The Australian sharemarket remained stronger at noon, with the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 again knocking on the door of record highs. At 1203 AEST, the S&P/ASX200 index was up 54.7 points to 6412.6 and the All Ordinaries had found 54.4 points to 6425.6. ...