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China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
Like the energizer bunny, China keeps on going and going... and going. Certainly, concerns are mounting over the Middle Kingdom's slowing economy in recent months but even the IMF, in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) -- released 6 October -- ...

Prime Super launches new brand

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Prime Super has re-launched its brand with a new logo and tagline. The move follows a merger with the Health Industry Plan in 2014. The $3 billion industry super fund's new tagline is "surprisingly straightforward" and the old logo featuring green rolling ...

CIO says low bond market rates to continue

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... increasing. We think that's going to be happening in the energy and commodity space, without doubt, but this minor move up, let's say towards 3%, is not going to be enough to invalidate the movement we've seen in spreads. We still think they're pretty ...

FSU secretary and executive reach impasse

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
Finance Sector Union (FSU) national secretary Fiona Jordan is expected to know more about her future today after making seething comments on the union's executive earlier this week. The FSU's national executive is reported to be meeting today and is ...

Mercer handed fine for unlicensed advice in Singapore

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... The fines relate to the company allowing four ineligible representatives to provide financial advice on its behalf. It also let employees without the minimum entry and exam requirements advise on life insurance policies and arrange life insurance contracts. ...

Yuan stable (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
News that China has revised its 2014 growth estimate from 7.4% -- the lowest in almost 25 years and missing its 7.5% target for that year - to 7.3% may have raised only a few eyebrows but it certainly added fuel to accusations that the People's Bank ...

Super investment fees should align with CPI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... Trafford-Walker said. "The message used to be from the managers that we have this skill, we can get you alpha and if you pay us we'll let you share the alpha. "Members are the ones who take the risk and they ought to get their fair share of returns." ...

Adviser linked to Spring FG banned for document forgery

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
A financial adviser has been permanently banned from the industry for falsifying Westpac finance letters to get more commissions. He was an employee of Murphy Dawson Partners, which was an authorised representative of Spring Financial Group between ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Are we barking at the wrong tree? Let me rephrase that, we are barking at the wrong tree. It has been less than a month ago - before this wailing and gnashing of teeth - that bad China news brought hopes that central command would fight back with stimulus ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
Australians all let us rejoice... for that recession we've long been longing to have might be just around the next bend. By now, Virginia, you would have read all about "Bloody Monday" - when "ASX loses $60 billion in worst day since the GFC" (9news.com.au) ...