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When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... he said. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The fourth panellist was James Bond, chief economist at the Financial Services Council and previously a senior economic advisor to Kevin Rudd. After the first 30 minutes of the forum was spent on global economies ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... its third straight record close. The S&P 500 gained 5.96 (0.29 per cent) to 2,069.46, its second straight record, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index bolted 41.92 (0.89 per cent) to 4,754.89 behind a nearly two per cent rise in Apple. The US economic ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... Friday, posting its second straight record close. The broad-based S&P 500 gained 10.75 (0.52 per cent) to 2,063.50, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 11.10 (0.24 per cent) to 4,712.97. The People's Bank of China unexpectedly cut benchmark ...

Funding for the government's adviser register unclear

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... can't be measured. We are the person that clients call when their financial stability is at risk." The Financial Services Council (FSC), the Financial Planning Association (FPA), the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the SMSF Professionals' ...

Super fees drop as fund war rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... always the case, but retail funds are not going to be outcompeted by industry funds in MySuper," the Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden said. Research found that ANZ Smart Choice Super is currently the cheapest public offer ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... Policy at the National University of Singapore and former Singapore Ambassador to the UN and President of the UN Security Council. Kishore Mahbubani said a transformation of Asia, which is seeing a 10,000% improvement in the standard of living in the ...

Default pensions 'very logical' solution: Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... very logical" way to encourage retirees to take income streams rather than lump sums, according to Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden. Brogden's comments came in response to the FSC-DST CEO Survey 2014 finding that 77% of Australia's ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... Friday. The broad-based S&P 500 dropped 9.64 (0.48 per cent) to 1,978.34, snapping two days of record-high closes, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index lost 22.54 (0.50 per cent) at 4,449.56. Earnings from Amazon (-9.7 per cent), Visa (-3.6 per ...

Advisers eye opportunity in identity theft protection

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... drain," she says. Around 740 million data records were exposed during 2013, an April 2014 white paper by the Atlantic Council and Zurich Insurance found. The figure is expected to grow significantly as consumers increasingly rely on data-led technologies ...

Platinum and Iress named 'laggards' on sustainability

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... companies that have failed to report on sustainability risk for the last four years, according to a study by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ACSI surveyed the entire ASX 200, applying five levels of reporting - comprehensive ...