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Australian Unity acquires Premium Wealth

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
Australian Unity Personal Financial Services (Australian Unity) has acquired nearly 97% of Premium Wealth Management. Premium Wealth shareholders almost unanimously accepted the acquisition offer, with the transaction being completed on 22 December. ...

Platinum backs US internet stocks and Asian infrastructure

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
Star manager Kerr Neilson's listed investment company Platinum Capital is backing out-of-favour big-name US technology companies as well as infrastructure plays in China and India. In a quarterly update to shareholders the billionaire investor said ...

Nearly there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
The price of crude continues to dance the limbo (how low can you go?) After a strong start, Wall Street buckled after lunch as the price of WTI dropped to a low of US$44.20 a barrel and Brent touched US$45.19. The S&P 500 index gained as much as 1.4% ...

Medcraft backs national adviser exam

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... consumers that the industry is on the right path to professionalism," he wrote. "The Series 7 exam in the United States comes to mind. We want a co-regulatory model where industry sets competence levels for advisers and then ASIC oversees the exam, which ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?" - Robert Burns Happy 2015 to all you gentlereaders. We're back in space - cyberspace that is - and, it seems, so are the economic and financial market uncertainties that littered the dying ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
"Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, Right down Santa Claus lane..." "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." (The New York Sun, 21 Sep 1897). It's hard to believe too given the depressing headlines about oil's slide (and more to follow) ...

Australia according to Gov Glenn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... international economy: "The Chinese economy... is looking like it's going to deliver the sort of outcomes that they had in mind - seven- ish [per cent growth a year]... The United States... is proceeding quite nicely economically. I think confidence ...

Vertical integration not important anymore: Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... prove to be a non-issue if both financial product manufacturers and distributors work with the consumers' best interest in mind, Financial System Inquiry (FSI) chairman David Murray said. "The same obligations are on everybody, whether they're vertically ...

Australia's confidence recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... but it'll do as long as we get the "R" word tag in the economy we desperately have been pining for... for so long. Never mind that we have to deflect our focus from the usual seasonally adjusted "GDP (Chain volume measure)" to the seasonally adjusted ...

The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... quarter GDP growth (not income) - using year-on-year rates - Australia 3.1% (if forecasts are correct); US 2.4%; UK 3.0%; never mind the eurozone and Japan. And still were all over the US and the UK with praises for their strong economies. As per The ...