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Time to buy Aus shares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... equities at Integrity Investment Management. "A year ago taxi drivers were giving you stock tips, which is always the sell signal. Today, you are buying those same stocks on significantly lower price to earnings," said Fiani. "Investors are understandably ...

AIG secures extra A$54bn in liquidity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... than 100 attendees, only 10 were employees of the AIG subsidiary who were there to represent their company." In a strong signal that the crises will significantly impact governance practices, for AIG but also across the financial sector, Edward M Liddy ...

Markets are a public good: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
Australia may be a small country but it took Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2,700 word speech to the United Nations on Friday to articulate a way out of the global financial mess. The speech was in contrast to US Treasury secretray Henry Paulson's widely ...

ESG buck stops with super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
Better and broader environmental, social and governance (ESG) research will occur when the major players high on the 'supply chain' such as super funds demand it, according to John Coombe, JANA executive director. Speaking at the Responsible Investment ...

Ipac revises global equities strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
AXA Asia Pacific subsidiary ipac shifts more funds into quantitative investing and away from fundamentally driven strategies when it mandated Enhanced Investment Technologies and Arrowstreet Capital to manage more than $800 million in funds. Enhanced ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market may decline today after US equities and commodities declined overnight. At 0748 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index futures contract was down 31 points at 5,110. In news today, the Australian ...

More super to move into daily pricing

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
In the future, more super funds will behave like fund managers, giving members a chance to see how much their savings are worth on a daily basis - a radical departure from today's convention of monthly, quarterly and yearly valuations. The debate surrounding ...

Lower, higher, steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
The latest reading from the Westpac/Melbourne Institute leading index points to a slowdown in the Australian economy in the coming months, confirming the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) comments in the minutes of its 5 August Board meeting. The annual ...

Inflation outlook dim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
Market Movers Overnight Soothing words from RBA Governor Glenn Stevens at the Anika Foundation Luncheon yesterday and declines in commodity prices overnight sent the Australian dollar down from a 25-year high of US$0.9784 to US$97.50. In his speech ...

Trouble at Threadneedle Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
More signs that US problems have made their way into the UK came overnight. After signaling in recent weeks that it is more likely to follow the European Central Bank (ECB) and tighten monetary policy rather than ease, the Bank of England (BoE) succumbed ...