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Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
Was that it? No fire sale? Have the financial markets lost their marbles? 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, - ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
"Talk to the hand"! With these words, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoiled my weekend. Not because I have money on Greece - I haven't got enough to buy a small bottle of booze - but more because Alexis proved wrong my musings that after all is ...

Greece in crisis (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
Sit down, buckle up and hang on. Houston, we don't have a problem... we now have a crisis (yet again). More precisely, a replay of the Greek debt crisis. Just have a look at some of the headlines this morning: "Stocks all over the world are dropping ...

Advisers need to educate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
Speaking at the XY Adviser Event in Sydney, Association of Financial Advisers 2014 adviser of the year Eleanor Dartnall explained that client education leads to client retention. Describing her "epiphany" that led her from "managing" clients to "actually ...

Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
"ATHENS - After nearly two weeks of tense negotiations, Greece and its troika of foreign creditors said Monday that they had clinched an agreement on economic measures that Athens must enforce to secure the release of further crucial rescue money." ...

Tsipras has a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
"Greece has now become like herpes to the Eurozone, once you catch it you can't get rid of it." This is what I typed on this space way back in June 2011 when the Europeans were in the midst of a sovereign debt crisis with Greece at the epicentre of ...

Push to end US Congressional pensions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
Claims that US politicians are out of touch with ordinary Americans have led a group of conservative Republicans to sponsor a bill to end Congressional pensions and force politicians to save for their own retirement just like everyone else. The legislation ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
Everything is political and especially so with the super-charged high stakes poker game on display in the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) where the battle lines were quickly drawn between financial product providers versus consumers. And after listening ...

The second FS Power50 list unveiled

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
Social media is the epicentre of new ideas and innovation in financial services industry and this years' edition of the FS Power50 features the top 50 individuals in Australia leading this conversation. The second edition of the FS Power50 is a completely ...

October h(a)unting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
an you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? The heebie-jeebies, that is, coz it's October. September maybe the month which, on average, is the worst month of the year but October - few and far between they may be - is the month of spectacular ...