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Matrix merger to place ClearView among top 10 licensees

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
ClearView's bid to acquire all of the shares in Matrix's financial planning business would place the combined group among Australia's ten largest advice groups by number of advisers. ClearView and Matrix entered into a merger implementation deed last ...

Stagflation is real in Brazil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
Hit it Karen, I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation And the only explanation I can find Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around Your love's put me at the top of the world." Tomorrow has come and the S&P 500 index has ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... and farmers even though real interest rates in China still remain lower than they are in Brazil, Russia and India, China's BRIC colleagues. The interest rate for those sectors is at 2.25%, 375 basis points lower than the actual one year lending rate." ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Reports that the US of A and the European Union have expanded the sanctions they've imposed on Russia reminded me of that ancient Spanish torture weapon - the garrotte. Wikipedia describes the garrotte as "a practice of strangulation by which the condemned ...

YBR adopts cloud-based planner software

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
Yellow Brick Road (YBR) has migrated all its core business processes to a cloud-based platform to keep pace with technology changes. Software platform NetSuite has replaced all the previous systems, including those in the financial management division ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
The Australian market has opened higher, following gains on Wall Street. Patersons Securities economist Tony Farnham said the gains in US markets on Friday night meant local stocks were starting on the front foot. Wall Street bounced back on Friday ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
"Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace..." -- Imagine, John Lennon On their own, they could have been easily ignored by financial markets - and dip ...

A BRICS R5 Bank is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
"Play it again, Chumbawamba"... "I get knocked down but I get up again..." Can't really stop those bargain hunters hunting for bargains on Wall Street, 'ey? Not even with the previous day's headlines talkin' 'bout the Fed saying that those bargains ...

YBR set to acquire mortgage manager RESI

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
Yellow Brick Road has expanded its presence in the home loan market with the acquisition of privately-owned mortgage manager RESI Mortgage Corporation for $36 million. Subject to YBR shareholder and regulatory approval, the offer includes $28 million ...

YBR requests trading halt ahead of buyout announcement

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
Yellow Brick Road Holdings (YBR) has requested a trading hold to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and is expected to announce an acquisition. YBR requested the trading halt yesterday and said it did so "pending the release of an announcement ...