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LIF expected before parliament this week

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
The Life Insurance Framework is expected to be put to the House of Representatives by Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer this week. The government released exposure draft legislation in December 2015, based on the framework, which O'Dwyer said at the ...

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
"The same old story It's been told much too much before The same old story But it's worth telling just once more..." - Billie Holiday Perhaps she didn't want to add rattle to an already jittery market. Perhaps she didn't want to deviate from the Fed ...

Small not feeling beautiful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
... non-manufacturing, to name a few - released so far this year. The NFIB small business optimism index declined to 93.9 in January - the lowest level since February 2014. The index has headed south since it peaked at 100.3 in December (when the Fed ended ...

More help wanted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
... market as employment opportunities improve." The ANZ job ads survey showed total advertisements increased to 156,969 in January - the highest level since June 2012 - up by 1.0% from December and by 10.8% from the same month last year. Internet ads increased ...

Rubik upgrades profit guidance

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
Financial services software company Rubik Financial expects its first half result to be more than 20% up on previous guidance of $2 million in underlying EBITDA. The company made the announcement on the ASX ahead of the release of its half year accounts ...

Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... equally as strong, if not stronger, than the boom years pre-GFC. Similarly, the unemployment rate has declined to 4.9% in January - the lowest level since February 2008 - at the same time that more Americans are re-joining the workforce - the participation ...

Who spooked the greenback?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Have financial markets stumbled on the one catalyst that could herald the beginning of the end... the end of the sour taste in their mouths for all things "risk" since the onset of 2016? They're getting back their mojos. Many, many times I have scribbled ...

US dollar downed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... This followed the ISM manufacturing survey (reported earlier this week) which printed at a lower than expected 48.2 in January - the fourth straight month of contraction in factory activity (below 50). To be sure, the US labour market remains strong ...

Instos to increase alternative strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
Illiquid and alternative asset strategies will only increase across the institutional investment market in 2016 according to latest reports from BlackRock and Willis Towers Watson. A BlackRock survey of more than 170 of the firm's largest institutional ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
A week and a day after equity markets welcomed Super Mario Draghi's announcement that the European Central Bank (ECB) would "review and possibly reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in early March in order to secure a return of ...