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InvestSMART launches free robo-advice tool

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
Managed funds discount broker InvestSMART has launched a free direct-to-consumer "robo-advice" tool. The tool allows consumers to input their existing assets (if any), answer questions on desired outcomes and time horizons and then compare available ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... adjusted in response to relevant information about how things in the economy are tracking relative to policy objectives". Yes Virginia, the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) CPI report for the June quarter has heated up speculations of whether or ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... yesterday. The heading says it all really: "Apple, Google and Microsoft explain the problem with Australia's sharemarket". Yes Virginia, the mammoths of the tech world have joined in the "bash Australia" crowd. There's something wrong with our share ...

Fed lady sings (the same old song)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... conditions likely would make it appropriate at some point this year to raise the federal funds rate target." Choowareewareewa! Yes, this year! The year 2015! She's not taking that other lady's - IMF's Madame Lagarde - advice to hold off until after the ...

Consensus emerging on Tax White Paper

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has reminded a business forum that the Tax White Paper is about how the government collects tax, not how much. Hockey told the PwC Tax Reform Forum in Melbourne yesterday that more than 800 submissions on the Tax White Paper ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel..." -Dusty Springfield Yes Virginia, the more things change... Here we go again, 'twas another deadline - 15 July - another missed deadline on the ever-spinning ...

Hyperion eyes global equities

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... your own money," he explained. When asked if this could signal a move from Hyperion into international equities, he said: "Yes, one day we would like to think that this is possible. But we would like to be adequately resourced and be able to demonstrate ...

Bank glitch delays government super payments

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
A problem with the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation's bank has delayed the superannuation payments to thousands of retirees. The CSC said on Friday morning that "about 99% of payments by value and volume were processed yesterday and that they ...

Still in the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... yesterday..." -- Spiral Staircase But would it be "...as much as tomorrow"? That's the musical version of "is this a dead cat bounce?" Yes Virginia, I refer to the Shanghai Composite Index which tumbled 5.9% one-day and high jumped 5.8% the next. OlA(C)! ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... after the 5 July referendum. Now we get to 20 July, this is a real deadline for Greece to play or its creditors won't pay. Yes Virginia, it's the same movie we've gone tired of watching. Still, it won't hurt to use protection... just in case. Talkin' ...