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The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... then no one had any appetite for Australia and the Australian stock market - it was an "old economy" - it doesn't have enough, if at all, tech, media and telecom companies to drive it forward. Ba ha ha. Yes, I'm laughing... out loud. This is because ...

AFA tweaking life insurance framework

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... Financial Standard following the framework's release, when he said: "Directionally the whole thing is okay, but there's not enough detail." In a statement, Fox said that the lack of detail in the initial release was due to the "tight deadline" applied ...

Companies failing to meet ATO benchmark

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... of roles. "Internal control testing is important here - boards need to be satisfied that the control framework is robust enough to manage the tax compliance risk effectively, with the ATO watching," Drummond said. "The two key questions for boards are ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... welcome. It shows that the Communist Party, powerful though it may be, cannot indefinitely bend markets to its will." Print enough money, threaten to cut enough heads and it will bend. The Fed's QE didn't work immediately - that's why we got QE1, Q2 ...

Advice demand up as direct investment grows

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... indirectly, while 5.8 million invested either directly or both directly and indirectly. However, investors felt they did not know enough about the share market, with 37% of direct only investors saying they were "not very knowledgeable" and 18% saying ...

FEATURE: Beyond Beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... portfolios. "When people started to buy market cap weighted index funds they quickly realised that they were not well diversified enough and that they were overexposed to certain sectors in the economy," Howie says. He adds that the ASX is among the ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... Haven't they read the headlines about Greece turn from gloom to doom and yet... there were no massive sell orders? Or, not enough buy-ops. Equity markets closed down, a bit, - the S&P 500 closed down by an eye-watering 0.4%; the All Ords by 1.2%; and ...

Oxi Oxi Oxi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... Greek-worded document and comes with a warning: "For those who can't read Greek debt speak, well, you're on your own". Looks easy enough - if nothing is lost in translation - the answer would be oxi, oxi, oxi, except that the plan that was submitted ...

Instos overconfident on drawdown risks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... same time, 62% believe their portfolio is suitably diversified to withstand and 65% believe that diversification alone is enough to protect their portfolios. "This faith in a relatively limited range of strategies could be taken as another sign of overconfidence. ...

D-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... crisis remains fluid - nay, volatile - and who knows what tomorrow brings... or the day after tomorrow. Are markets fearful enough to trigger one of those "buffettisms" and be greedy? Tomorrow could be too late if there's positive news on Greece - the ...