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Light-years before Macquarie and YBR bother banks

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... funds which will help with the high cost of funding for such a venture. Yellow Brick Road has the retail network to help push this to the market and a tie in with that source of funding makes sense for them too." "However, there is still a long way to ...

Markets await promising China leadership change

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
China's upcoming leadership change will bring significant economic reforms promoting market efficiency and putting an end to fears of a hard landing, according to Threadneedle's Gigi Chan. As Barrack Obama prepares for four more years in office in the ...

Political punch trading greatest risk to US economy

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... is just how to tackle the $1.1 trillion federal budget deficit and the looming spending cuts and tax hikes threatening to push the US back into recession. "These changes are clearly the last thing needed at a time when confidence is fragile, and the ...

Westpac warns tough year ahead

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
Westpac's full-year statutory net profit has fallen 15% to $5.97 billion owing to a one-off tax benefit last year. The tax gain is related to the bank's takeover of St George, which pushed last year's profit artificially higher and made this year's ...

Kohler campaign slammed by ASFA

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
Save Our Super, a campaign backed by veteran financial commentator and owner of the Eureka Report Alan Kohler is poorly researched, and its alternatives underdeveloped, said an article published by the Association of Superannuation funds of Australia ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... rose, with Tokyo rebounding from the previous day's losses as dealers welcomed the Bank of Japan's (BoJ) latest stimulus push. Trade was thin on Wednesday, with Wall Street closed for a second day as superstorm Sandy hit New York. Investors were also ...

Push... pussshh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012

Paper bank statements ignored by UK consumers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... mobile computing. But the banks aren't having it their own way as PayPal is becoming just as dominant, they noted. Despite the push to online and mobile banking, super fund statements in Australia are still predominatly delivered by paper statements ...

Financial services outstrip mining: CommSec

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... measures are likely to prop up demand. Furthermore, the rise of the Chinese middle class and Prime Minister Julia Gillard's push more engagement with the 'Asian century' should further advance trade with the East. "Our relationship with China is evolving. ...

Mortgage brokers told to target SMSFs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... own super in the future." He said with 15% of SMSF assets already invested into property, their ability to borrow should push this allocation higher. Three quarters of this allocation is in commercial property, noted analysis of the sector by Rainmaker ...