Australians Put Record Amounts Into Term Deposits During 2008

January 6, 2009 · Filed Under banking, interest rates, investments · Comment 

Reserve Bank of Australia data shows that bank term deposits have increased by more than 50 per cent in 2008 which is the fastest growth in term deposits in nearly 20 years.

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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against ANZ Over Opes Prime

December 30, 2008 · Filed Under Business News, Company News, Equities, banking, home loans, investments · Comment 

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Australian Banking major ANZ which is alleging that the lender failed to adequately disclose risks associated with loans to insolvent margin lender Opes Prime.

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Aussie Bonds Provide Spectacular Returns In 2008

December 29, 2008 · Filed Under Wealth Management, investments · Comment 

Research provided by wealth managers AMP Capital Investors suggests that Aussie bonds, which have been serial underperformers for most of the last decade when compared to their equity brethren, have provided relatively spectacular returns this year.

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Australian Pension Funds Lose A$ 91 Billion

Australian pension funds lost a combined A$ 91 billion or US$ 62 billion in the year to Sept 2008, which amounts to the equivalent of about 8 per cent of the country’s total economic output. The staggering loss is a direct consequence of the global credit crisis which has had the result of devaluing assets globally.

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ASIC To Crack Down On Rogue Stock Brokers

November 28, 2008 · Filed Under Business News, Equities, Featured Articles, investments · Comment 

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) says it will start focusing more closely on the operations of Australian broking houses that use market rumours to generate an increase in their sales or the trading activity of their clients .

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Babcock & Brown in Deposit Dispute With Bankers

November 22, 2008 · Filed Under Company News, Equities, investments · 1 Comment 

Babcock & Brown, the troubled Australian investment advisory firm, said that it was involved in a dispute with one of its bankers, over the release of a deposit which it views as a “material amount”

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CBA Takes A Beating

November 14, 2008 · Filed Under Company News, Equities, banking, investments, news · Comment 

It has been a terrible couple of weeks for CBA; two major brokers downgraded Commonwealth Bank of Australia since the beginning of last week. Investors were spooked over the bank’s exposure to Allco Finance and ABC Learning. The capital raising by rival NAB at the start of this week which had the effect of improving its tier one capital ratio, all but guaranteed that investors would lay siege to CBA’s stock price over the last two days, as investors demand that the bank observe the more conservative benchmarks in capital adequacy that its peers are observing.

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CBA and Westpac Ink Online Trading Agreement

November 11, 2008 · Filed Under news, online trading · Comment 

Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac Banking Corp, have both signed a four year agreement with one another to provide online share trading and portfolio administration services.

The agreement is in actual fact between two Westpac Banking Corp subsidiaries, and a CBA unit. Westpac subsidiaries, Westpac Securities Ltd and BT Portfolio Services Ltd, did signed a deal with CBA unit Australia Investment Exchange Ltd, which is part of its brokerage division CommSec.

CommSec managing director Matt Comyn said CBA was committed to becoming the leading provider of wholesale financial services in Australia.

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November 10, 2008 · Filed Under Featured Articles, investments, news, online trading · Comment 

Warren Buffet thinks that stocks all over the world are attractively priced right now. He seems to have an awful lot of confidence in US equities and is putting his money where his mouth is. In fact I would have to agree with him and my own personal view is they do seem cheap to me. But just after I bought some equities at the beginning of November, world equity markets went into free fall and I found myself having to return time and again to Mr. Buffet’s op-ed piece in the New York Times for comfort, when the pain it seemed, was just too much to bare.

If you can stomach a roller coaster in the short and medium term, then it’s worth thinking about a punt. Perhaps the easiest way I can think of buying Australian stocks is through an online broker like St George’s directshares. They are my broker of choice, just because it was so easy to set up an account with them, If you already have a Power Saver bank account with St George like I did, then setting up a St. George’s directshares trading account is a complete doddle. Here is my logic though, and in large part I have plagiarised from the Sage of Omaha, because he is the world’s greatest investor and I am sure he uses a St. George’s directshares trading account when he buys a few billion dollars of equities!!!

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AMP Raises Funds, Capital Market Shows Sings of Thaw.

November 7, 2008 · Filed Under Wealth Management, investments, news · Comment 

Australian wealth manager AMP in a sign that the market for capital raising is thawing somewhat, managed to raise a higher than expected amount on strong demand from institutional investors.

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