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Advisers failing to engage disillusioned consumers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
The advisory community is falling short of its need to engage the hordes of consumers disillusioned by subdued sentiment and negative press, a panel of industry experts has said. Speaking at the annual AFA National Conference on the Gold Coast last ...

Luddite firms off-radar: Schroders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... "Trading based solely on reputation becomes short lived. Instantaneous feedback from real consumers now has the potential to stop a product launch in its tracks," says Burns. "In our search for investments on behalf of our clients, we have been vigilant ...

Good US housing news is real good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... bloggeratis are telling you to worry about - housing starts have been trending higher since early 2011. And it looks like it won't stop here. Building permits - a leading indicator of housing starts - have also been moving higher. It's rose by 11.6% ...

It's raining, it's pouring good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... it decides to follow the Fed, the ECB and the BOJ down the quantitative easing path. The good news out of Europa doesn't stop here folks. ZEW Center for European Economic Research index of investor and analyst expectations improved to minus 11.5 this ...

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... Confederation in Spain that, "The overall picture then is that we expect growth in the advanced economies to slow but not stop..." It didn't stop alright and the global economy contracted. Actual result -- world growth slipped by 0.6% in the year to ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
They just won't stop coming, do they? Yes them, the bad news. This time it came courtesy of the World Bank (WB). The WB went on a chopping spree - slashing its growth outlook for the Asia and the Pacific region to 7.2% this year and 7.6% in 2013 - down ...

Enduring baby boomers redefine retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
Demographic and societal forces at work among retirees in Australia over the next decade will transform the concept of retirement, with huge implications for industries that service them such as super funds and financial advisers. These were the observations ...

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... other emerging markets have now shifted to an accommodative stance and Europe's on OMTs and its ESM approved -- and Ben won't stop until it does. Remember the market adage, "don't fight the Fed"? It's not only the Fed markets don't want to pick a fight ...

Two down, one to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... that Europe's powers-that-are would do everything and anything in their power to keep the single currency area single. Next stop towards strengthening that singleness: Banking Union. Last night, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso outlined ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... than double the 89.8 billion a year earlier, the data showed." Now you believe that what Wen wants, Wen gets. But let's not stop there. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Tianjin yesterday, PM Wen assured the world that, "Be it monetary or fiscal ...