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ISA spends $9 million on ad campaign

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... work with its creative agency responsible for the 'Compare the Pair' ads, The Shannon Company. In an article published yesterday, media publication Mumbrella estimated that the contract currently on tender was worth between $30 and $40 million. ISA insisted ...

'Leaner' HSBC hikes profits, bonuses

BEN PERRY, AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... than in 2011 with strong potential for growth," Gulliver said in comments included in the bank's earnings statement yesterday. He said the bank was "optimistic about the longer-term prospects of emerging markets" despite its own expectations "of greater ...

FoFA changes go too far diluting conflicted rem: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... the conflicted remuneration prohibition and the best interests duty." ISA deputy chief executive Robbie Campo spoke yesterday in a public hearing of the Senate Economics Reference Committee, which is conducting an inquiry into the performance of the ...

ASIC could implement immediate suspension of advisers

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... suspension of "bad-apple" advisers if it had powers to do it. ASIC senior leaders were asked about this issue during yesterday's public hearing of the Senate Economics Reference Committee which is currently conducting an inquiry into the regulator's ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) yesterday released numbers that are closest to everyone's hearts (errr, pockets) but you won't know it gauging from the financial markets' reaction. Australian equities rose a bit (plus 0.3% on the ASX 200) ...

Action!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... expand its lending facilities a surprise but we know better, do we not? The BOJ must have read what I wrote on this space yesterday, wet its pants and therefore followed my suggestion that, "It must do something, anything... and now." Sure, sure pigs ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... All good until...... it ran out of puff. The annualised real GDP growth rate slowed to 1.1% in the third quarter and yesterday, we found that it crawled even more to 1.0% in the last quarter of 2013 - expectations were for a gain of 2.8%. The details ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... at in the meantime.A Wasn't me! It's the weather! Not so for Australia - the sun is shining her and the sky is blue. Yesterday we got our own disappointing indicator when our National Statistician revealed that Australia's unemployment rate rose to 6.0% ...

Member direct investment at "high water mark": AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. Speaking at the Investment and Administration Conference in Sydney yesterday, Haynes said that MDI options are currently not meeting this test. "The implementation of member direct investments needs to ...

US Congress votes to raise debt ceiling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... on emerging market and safe haven currencies like the AUD is expected to continue. The IMF meanwhile in a statement yesterday said it believes the AUD needs to fall by another 10 US cents to USD 0.80, a level it believes is the long term sustainable ...