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Not strong enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... possibly can" because "I've never felt that our asset purchases have been that effective in addressing what's the biggest problem we face in this country, which is the employment market and the labor market". I don't know about that. The US labour market ...

Warren Buffett praises Fed stimulus measures

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... situation that existed in 2008," he said. "It's [the recovery] a lot slower than people would like, but it was a lot bigger problem than any of us had ever seen." The Federal Reserve's aggressive bond-buying program has helped stimulate the economy ...

Losing triple A by trying to maintain AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013

May Day happy day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... of paying to store them at the ECB. The economy will be made whole again. Hip, hip. But in a region where demand is the problem - businesses and consumers don't want to borrow or banks only lend to the less risky customers (of which there are less because ...

Don't be disappointed if the ECB disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... confidence in April make it even more likely that Santa Draghi's gift of glee is in the bag. Or is it? Why? What's the problem now, you ask? If you go back to ECB President Marion Draghi's speech before the Plenary of the European Parliament two weeks ...

Practitioners ill equipped for business sale

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... over the following months and three out of four do not progress to a completed transaction." According to Wrightson, the problem is that there is no standard procedure when it comes to selling a financial planning business and can involve lengthy and ...

Industry under-prepared for SuperStream: Bravura

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
The financial services industry's back-office technology systems are woefully under-prepared for the government's SuperStream reforms, according to Bravura global head of investment product Darren Stevens. Part of the reason, he said, is that most institutions ...

Apps disappoint despite vast tech spend

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
The problems consumers have encountered with mobile banking applications may inform the financial services industry as it looks to produce its own investment and superannuation apps. According to BanterMob director of mobile marketing and strategy Kelly ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... at February). Hopefully contagion works in reverse too with increasing confidence for Spain flowing through into other problem economies in the Eurozone. Then again there's the more immediate decision to make, do we sell in May (or before) and go awa ...

No problemo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
Thanks to all you panic-sellers out there, for without you guys there won't be any dips to buy. And so it goes, Virginia. A momentary bout of selling once more met with dip-buyers. The S&P 500's recoup some of its 2.3% loss the previous day, up 1.4% ...