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Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
Australians all let us rejoice... Nah, not because "wild card" Guy Sebastian made numero cinco at the weekend's Eurovision finals - well... if you put money that he'll make Top 10 then go ahead and show us those pearly whites. Let's rejoice for what ...

Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... has gone from managing less than $1 billion to managing about $2.5 billion in the 12 months to December 2014. Recently Virgin Money also announced plans to ramp its superannuation offering, including appointing a new chief executive and entering a partnership ...

ASIC seeks more bans in SMSF advice crackdown

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... 200 SMSF investors (aiming to raise at least $20 million), to establish an offshore share scheme in the US and British Virgin Islands outside of ASIC's jurisdiction. Furthermore, the participants in this scheme (including others also named by ASIC) ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... unchanged at plus 3 in April and "Business conditions retraced some - but not all of the gains reported in March" (NAB). Australia's big four banks - ANZ, CBA, NAB (on a trading halt), WBC - and Telstra dragged the overall index down as scribbled in ...

Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
If even a dog can have his day, why not bears? Can't blame 'em Virginia, it's May after all - that month of the year when you, I and Irene are supposed to "sell and go away". But, but... but it may be more than the seasonality this May that's' taking ...

Virgin and Mercer announce super partnership

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
Virgin Money Australia has announced the next step in the development of its superannuation fund. After appointing Greg Boyle as the company's chief executive last month, the company has entered a long-term partnership with Mercer. The partnership will ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... cents to $34.08, Westpac had risen 18 cents to $36.64 and National Australia Bank was up two cents at $36.79. Virgin Australia, which is 73% owned by foreign airlines, was flat at 51 cents after it posted a narrower loss during the March quarter as its ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... Australia Bank dropped two cents to $38.43, Westpac shed 12 cents to $38.73 and ANZ slipped five cents to $35.53. Virgin Australia added a quarter of a cent to 52.75 cents after the airline announced former Deutsche Asset Management Australia chief executive ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Impressive! Nah Virginia, I refer not to the big bouncy bouncy Wall Street and European equity markets did last night - which almost instantaneously affirmed the rant I scribbled on this space yesterday that "the bad and the bad and the bad" that spooked ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... and then, the boss decides to hire a sidekick. Understandably, this piece of good news in half of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) dual mandate - employment and inflation - has financial markets re-calibrating their odds for a May interest rate ...