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Crystal Wealth launches managed account solution

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
Crystal Wealth Partners has launched a unified managed account solution developed with specialist provider and AMP subsidiary Multiport. Called the Crystal Wealth Managed Account Service, it provides Crystal Wealth's clients with eight model portfolio ...

Thrilla in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... European recession is expected to be and find that it's not going to be that bad after all. That is, of course, if the EU's crystal ball is crystal clear. Wall Street behaved as one would expect as well with the Dow and the S&P 500 closing 0.4% up. And ...

The majority is wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... cash rate unchanged at 4.25% despite almost universal consensus that it would lower borrowing costs for Australians all. Crystal clear on crystal ball. Heading into the RBA's first Board meeting for 2012, we've read reports that 21 of 24 economic gurus ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... what gives is we've heard this tune before. And heck, this is good news compared with what the World Bank (WB) saw in its crystal ball only a few days back. The WB sees the world economy expanding by only 2.5% this year and by 3.1% the next and warned ...

2011: hits and misses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... initial assessment that the midyear slowdown was temporary -- the fact is the US economy is improving. As for Europe, my crystal ball was crystal clear. "The bears will sum their rationale in four words: European sovereign debt crisis. Yes Virginia ...

RBA right to cut rates and correct to hold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... tell you this is not statistically significant. In simple terms, you wouldn't want to bet your house on what a mere 25 crystal balls foretell - much less when they're premonition differs. The RBA can go either way... and no one can fault it for doing ...

Go figure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... boy, we're in trouble... again. But behind the sensational eye-catching headline are the underlying numbers on the OECD's crystal ball that show growth in the biggest 20 economies of the world dipping from 3.9% in 2011 to just 3.8% next year before surging ...

Statewide and Local enter merger due diligence

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
The merger between StatewideSuper and Local Super is moving to the next stage after receiving in principle approval from the major shareholders of both funds. Chair of StatewideSuper, Nicholas Begakis, and Local Super chair, Juliet Brown, said the proposed ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... make sense is for the Australian equity market to fall almost as much as the bourses of America and Europe when it is crystal clear that Australia is in a much better place and is now less-dependent on these countries' growth. It had only been three ...

IOOF moves for 100pc DKN shares

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
IOOF Holdings has moved to dramatically increase its shares in DKN Financial Group from 18.49 per cent interest to 100 per cent for a complete acquisition of the firm. IOOF, which has held shares since DKN listed in 1989, said the relatively illiquid ...