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Older people seek more financial advice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
Wealthy older men are the biggest consumers of financial advice and are far more likely to use a planner than those under age 34, or women, latest figures show. The Superannuation and Wealth Management in Australia report, released last week by Roy ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... the end of the day, the can of Greek debt will continue to be kicked down the road. And the good ol' US of A? There's the mother of all economic reports -US non-farm payrolls -- coming out at the end of next week. A good number would reinforce Big Benny's ...

Signature scam adviser banned for life: ASIC

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... transfer 85,000 Wesfarmers shares belonging to self-funded retiree Edwin Smith, into a margin account he had opened in his mother's name. King, 41, has been given a life ban from financial services regulator ASIC for engaging in misleading and deceptive ...

Backpedals

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... and I say it's alright" (Beatles). And this happened in a span of just 24 hours. The US non-farm payrolls report - the mother of all economic reports - for April did it. The economy created an additional 244,000 jobs over the month - the biggest one-month ...

Insurance puts a price on housework

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
Stay at home parents can now receive up to $900 a week in insurance cover for their unpaid housework, should they get injured or fall ill under a new insurance product. Suncorp subsidiary, Million Dollar Woman, created Day-to-Day Living Expenses Cover ...

Super policies shortchange women

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
Women are severely disadvantaged by existing government rules on super, with new research that shows two in five women accumulate less than a year's worth of super come retirement. A survey of more than 800 Australian women, aged between 50 to 80 years ...

No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... one nice dip buying opportunity... in hindsight. Disasters, calamities and devastations - both man-made and conjured by Mother Nature - dished out on Planet Earth have not been able to knock the socks off investors. There's money to be made. Tensions ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... There were no significant data out overnight, no compass to steer the global financial world north or south. And true to my mother's constant warning when I was a little boy - "if you get lost, stay put" - that's precisely what Wall Street did while ...

More turbulence ahead: De Bever

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... Bever believes that huge technological advances will provide the impetus for returns in the years ahead. "Necessity is the mother of invention. If they (India and China) try to grow the way we have it isn't going to work," he said. "My prediction is ...

A QEasy road ahead for investors

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... When the tech bubble burst, the Fed slashed interest rates again, but left them too low for too long, which created the mother of all housing bubbles, the bursting of which the US is yet to fully recover from. Sherwood said that QE could have "profound ...