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AMP extends Super Easy to employer market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
AMP Financial Services is looking to boost its superannuation footprint, extending its Flexible Lifetime Super Easy product to the employer market. The AMP Flexible Lifetime Super Easy - Employer product is targeted at small to medium employers. The ...

Ganging up on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
... things now stand it could only achieve its objective of "maximum employment" by keeping monetary policy very, very, very easy. This means keeping interest rates very, very, very low and keeping on buying Treasury debt. Both of which are putting downward ...

Life insurance from $1 a day

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... "With EasyProtect, ING Australia is providing a range of life, major illness and income protection that is affordable and easy to apply for, whether online or over the phone," said Richard Schoeffer, executive director of direct insurances. According ...

Weight in gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... sounding like a Billy Connolly ad now. Because its kind Uncles announced that some stimulus measures will be extended and easy money would remain easy until the slack in 'resource utilisation' (read, unemployment) is filled. Remember what I've written ...

Stuck at zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... imagine the impact this will have on those financial market investments that have been financed by low(no)-cost debt. It's easy, think back to the GFC. At the time, the banks and investment institutions were overleveraged. This time, USA Inc. is. At ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... and then...the next bust. But when? Nobody knows. Ahh yes, there will be cries of "I told you so" after the fact. It is so easy to put a dd/mm/yyyy tomorrow. But ask when today, and...nobody knows. And while investment managers sit and wait for the 'second ...

Carpe Diem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... Wall Street goes, there also the rest of the world. Pleasant surprises overnight made the Dow's reclamation of 10,000 real easy. Intel beat both profit and revenue expectations for the third quarter. Better, the chipmaker issued a surprisingly strong ...

Thin line between values and money

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... his goals of giving that a lot to charity," he said. While not everyone dreams of the same lofty goals, Musgrave said it's easy for advisers to underestimate how much leaving a "legacy" is important for many people. "You have to ask the right questions. ...

Simple advice at GESB

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... GESB has launched a free Simple Advice service to boost its financial planning services to its 310,000 members. Providing easy access to advice over the phone, Simple Advice enables GESB to improve the financial well-being of its members by helping them ...

More ATMs for SuperVantage users

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
... partnership with Cuscal and launch of the SuperVantage Account makes Vision Super the first industry fund to provide members with easy, convenient, access to their savings," said Rob Brooks, chief executive of Vision Super, in April.