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Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... August - the highest since December 2008. And overall, temporary employment has been on the up and up since October 2009 (except for a slight dip of 900 positions in July). As activity picks up, many will go on to working for the man full-time. And they ...

Asia to reap $75bn windfall

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
Australian investors are underweight equities by $75 billion - but when the rebalancing occurs in their portfolios, Asia - not Australia - will be the key beneficiary of the flows, said Asian investments stalwart, Kerry Series. Series, chief investment ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
Summer has ended - in the Northern Hemisphere that is. But the uncertainty that has befallen Wall Street through the sunny season has not gone away - nor does it look like going anywhere anytime soon. Wall Street may have produced a positive performance ...

Rainmaker unveils winners of the 2010 Marketing Excellence Awards

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... for 160 years. Jean Kittson, TV personality and one of the country's best known comedians, hosted the awards ceremony. Except for the Integrated Marketing Campaign award, nominees in each category were nominated and voted for by their peers. This is ...

More planners bypass managed funds: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... the major fund managers in the country offer planners 'model portfolios', which are exactly the same portfolios they run except they're not managed within a unit trust structure. Planners pay them fees for their 'intellectual property' and, in return ...

Rainmaker unveils 2010 award nominees

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... event also awards financial services providers that are succeeding across many facets of the industry. In all categories, except one, the nominees are voted for by people within the industry, acknowledging the best individual professionals and businesses ...

AUSCOAL goes live on Bluedoor

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
Industry fund AUSCOAL Super has today gone live with its BluedoorTM web-based administration registry solution. AUSCOAL Super has replaced its suite of superannuation applications with the Bluedoor single technology framework. The creation of a single ...

Good newer news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... represents the seventh straight reading "above" the 50 expansion/contraction mark. The details of the report shows that except for imports, all components were in expansion territory. This is good because it signals that net exports (exports minus imports) ...

SMSFs carry underlying key person risk: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
A new report has raised concerns about the structure of self managed super funds (SMSF) as trustees potentially become unable to adequately invest and administer their retirement savings as they get older. The Financial Wellbeing in Retirement report ...

Sovereign keeps overweight to distressed debt

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
Alternatives expert Sovereign Investment Research is recommending its superannuation clients remain overweight to specific distressed debt strategies ahead of expected defaults from small US-based companies. Ray King, managing director at Sovereign ...