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Heads up to where Wall Street's heading

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... Wells Fargo Funds Management." ""Investors who say, 'It's up too much, you can't buy it' or, 'It hasn't gone down enough times' have been playing a fool's game," Manley, who helps oversee about $233 billion for Wells Fargo Funds Management in New York ...

FPA turns to social media on Financial Planning Week

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... and risk adversity regimes are working against us, but they are moving very quickly; the policies need to keep up with the times." The campaign aims to show consumers that using a financial planner shouldn't be viewed as an option only for the wealthy. ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... too.A Indeed... if labour supply can also vary, you need to consider the wage numbers too." And according to the Financial Times, "He also said that - because labour markets can react slowly - there was now a trade-off between the "accuracy of the information ...

Cap market efficiency plummets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... noted that in 1990 residential loans accounted for 15% of bank assets but by 2013 this ratio had increased two and a half times to 38%. These metrics add momentum to previous ISA analysis that showed the financial system to be Australia's largest industry ...

Tribunal sees rise in super admin complaints

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... on the rise with 748 being held this year so far, compared with 424 for the previous year, an increase of 76.4%. Median times for complaints resolved at review have decreased by 137 days.

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... Shanghai's China Business News". And it looks better for Russia and China price-wise. "The market prices in Russia are three times those in Manzhouli in China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region", according to http://www.wantchinatimes.com/. Is this the ...

Simplify your products, life insurers told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... insurance policy document and try to understand it - and I've been around for a few decades - and I have to say I struggle at times. "Look at the definition of total and permanent disablement - it's unbelievably complex in some cases, and you wonder ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... 2010, the total size of Asian middle class was 500 million people. By 2020 there will be 1.75 billion, an increase of 3.5 times. "The world has never seen anything like this before." Read all Financial Standard coverage of the FSC Annual ConferenceA ...

Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... Libya, in Syria and in Iraq. This is a wild card for the markets, it also reminds me of Bob Dylan's classic, "... how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' ...

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank reaches agreement in Great Southern case

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... director Mike Hirst, said he was pleased with the settlement. "We have always maintained that the Bank's conduct was at all times appropriate and the Bank is entitled to be repaid its loans to Great Southern borrowers," he said. "The terms of this agreement ...