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Anxiety over 'all-things super' takes toll on MySuper uptake

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
The number of superannuation funds applying for a license to run a MySuper product is likely to fall well short of expectations, according to estimates from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. The application process for the low-cost no-frills ...

Advisers risk wasting 2013: van Eyk Advice

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
Instead of preparing for an onslaught of regulatory change, Australian financial planning businesses are in danger of wasting next year, van Eyk Advice has warned. 'Grandfathering' provisions in the federal government's Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher following Wall Street gains on optimism the looming "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax rises and spending cuts threatening the US with recession can be avoided. At 0643 AEDT on Thursday, the December share ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... exports more than offset the 1% dip in imports. No prizes for guessing but could this be due to slowing export markets, a dear A$ and lower commodity prices? Fortunately, the RBA's on the job... but it might have to more hard yakka. Here comes the sun. ...

Why QE3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... and increased private payroll employment by more than 2 million jobs, relative to what otherwise would have occurred." But dear reader Stuart has a point - if QEs 1 & 2 worked, why, do we need QE3? The simple answer is that because the Fed ended both ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... again need all hands on deck. Super Mario has done it, PM Wen is doing it, Pres Lee's onto it, PM Noda's about to do it, our dear Glen might do more. Your turn Big Ben.

Ben's turn to be super

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
This is it folks. This week's the week when we find out whether or not dear Uncle Ben would be donning a cape and wearing his underwear outside his pants and do a Super Mario. Most financial marketeers were convinced he talked about it last month at ...

It's still the hole, stups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012

Bad news? Where?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
The times, they are a-changin' - or more accurately, market sentiment is. The glass is no longer half-empty, it's half-filled and if leaks again, the Fed will be there to top it up. So half-full that our very own S&P/AX 200 index surged by more than ...

Schroders expands fixed income capability

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
Schroders Investment Management has appointed Stuart Dear as a fund manager within its fixed income and multi-asset team. The appointment follows Dear's departure from his role as senior fixed income portfolio manager at Aberdeen Asset Management that ...