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Hunter Hall donates $1.32m to charity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... governments spend on the GFC. "Trillions have been spent on financial bailouts but our governments are spending next to nothing on protecting the very stuff of life," he said in a statement. Each year, the group's shareholders nominate who will receive ...

Super funds fight for human rights

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... abuses, improve the lives and rights of hundreds of people in just over a year? According to four Swedish pension funds, nothing is impossible. The Ethical Council of the Swedish AP-Funds, made up of pension funds AP1 to 4, has engaged multinational ...

Macfarlane calls for a new regulatory regime

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... was a better regulatory structure. He said Basel II was a regulatory system designed to stop banks going broke but did nothing to protect economies. One way for banks to protect themselves was to stop lending, which was the current experience and which ...

FMs back a winner 50pc of the time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... performance is not a reflection of future returns' is still relevant, Field said. "Track records keep the score but say nothing about how well the game was played or if they are likely to win next time," said Field. "Turning to the world of investment ...

You earn, I spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... one-termer if the global financial crisis is allowed to ravage the Australian economy - the Opposition's Christmas wish. Doing nothing to preserve the Holy Grail that is the budget surplus ensures this. The Coalition Government deserves to be congratulated ...

The other race

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... outcome, but while Viewed returned A$46.50 to the Australian buck, the RBA's surprise 75 basis point rate reduction delivered nothing - even less if counted to three decimal points - to the All Ordinaries. Perhaps it was because the Melbourne Cup once ...

Mortgage funds' phantom lifeline

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... confidence in mortgage funds is a political master stroke because while it sounds terrific, it commits the government to nothing, will take months to have any impact and won't put dollars on the tables of retirees needing cash to pay tonight's grocery ...

Daily funnies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... By this time tomorrow, markets expect news that it has cut interest rates by 50 or 75 basis points. But then there is nothing stopping it from reducing rates by as much as 100 basis points. This will bring the fed funds rate to 0.50 per cent, particularly ...

Perennial bears the bear

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... market and even better, beat the doom-and-gloomsters. Any way you describe the events of the last two months would be nothing short of an understatement. Wall Street fell off a cliff and the real economy is starting to hurt. But it is during these dark ...

Macq inv lending sale won't hit Lever

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... operated. He said the group is still focused on educating the advice market on what the product does for the SMSF market. "If nothing else was happening in the world, it would take you 90 to 100 days to go through the education process. We're still going ...