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When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... capacity. Good for Qantas. The maths work same revenue less reduced costs equal higher bottomline. Perfectamento! But... but, yes, that's right, but that's if revenue remains the same. Hell may freeze over but as sure as night follows day (sowee for ...

ISA spends $9 million on ad campaign

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has confirmed that it spent around $9 million on advertising in 2013, despite some media reporting a much higher figure. ISA, which represents 15 super funds including AustralianSuper, Cbus, Hesta and HOSTPLUS, confirmed ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... I'm a day late and a yuan short in bringing to you the latest market moving event in the world's second biggest economy. And yes, I mentioned short because some speculators might be thinking just that - shorting the Chinese yuan versus the greenback ...

'Leaner' HSBC hikes profits, bonuses

BEN PERRY, AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
London-headquartered HSBC has controversially unveiled measures to avoid new EU rules on bank bonuses, drawing the wrath of union bosses. This comes after Europe's biggest bank managed a 15.5% A jump in annual net profits and warned about emerging markets ...

G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
The week that was looked exactly like the week before that was. Yes Virginia, financial market sentiment remains upbeat for what is good is good and what is bad, what is disappointing, what is negative is "likely affected by the weather". Blame the ...

ATO doing a good job on SMSFs: Cooper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... the best regulator for the job. "Would it be beneficial to have a regulator just in the SMSF space? The answer is probably yes." However, he said the "ATO has their hands full." "We need to get back to the basic questions of what is superannuation. It's ...

FoFA changes go too far diluting conflicted rem: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has argued to a Senate committee that the proposed amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) "go too far by diluting both the conflicted remuneration prohibition and the best interests duty." ISA deputy chief ...

ASIC could implement immediate suspension of advisers

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) could implement the immediate suspension of "bad-apple" advisers if it had powers to do it. ASIC senior leaders were asked about this issue during yesterday's public hearing of the Senate Economics ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... December quarter (the slowest gain since 1997) - or have gone backwards when you factor in inflation of 2.7%. Backwages? Oh yes sir, we knew. Job cuts announcements, company closures, the unemployment rate on an uptrend how could we miss it? It's the ...

Action!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... the 'forward guidance' club. Although "... the economy is evolving smoothly and is moving along with our economic outlook (yes, yes, yo we already heard you say that)... If the risk that you mentioned actually materialized, we would make an adjustment ...