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Capex & Credit at the forefront

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 24 AUG 2008
... expected to increase by 1.6 per cent in the year to August with the core Tokyo rate forecast to rise by 0.3 percent. Nationwide headline CPI inflation is expected to rise to 2.2 percent in July, up from 2 percent in the previous month. The national core ...

US growth disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... up one tick to 5.6 percent in July. Europe also got its fair share of negative news on growth and inflation. The UK nationwide house price index fell by 1.7 percent in July, accelerating the 0.8 percent decline in the previous month, and is down 8.1 ...

This Week's Market Movers (28 Jul - 1 Aug 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... will leave the annual growth rate unchanged at 3.4 percent. In the UK, markets will get updates of M4 money supply, nationwide housing prices report, consumer confidence data and the purchasing managers index. UK consumer sentiment is being pulled down ...

US houses continue to burn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... Japanese department store sales for June are due out today. Tokyo's store sales fell by 2.3 percent last month with nationwide sales down by 2.7 percent. In Australia, export and import price index figures for the second quarter are due out. The import ...

Bell Financial buys Southern Cross Equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... combined business will look to hire more brokers. Bell Financial Group has 290 private client advisers across 12 offices nationwide with more than $21 billion in sponsored holdings and $4 billion in funds under management as at the end of May this ye ...

Planners to focus on income: GVI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2008
... total returns as a major driver when it comes to tailoring their client portfolios, a new survey shows. According to a nationwide survey of over 300 financial advisers conducted by Global Value Investors (GVI), 83 per cent of financial planners said ...

BankWest's recruitment drive on track

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... financial planning division included 17 financial planners on the "west coast" and 10 on the "east coast" across 14 stores nationwide. He said the bank recruited former Westpac employee, Lisa Livis as national manager and had appointed a head manager ...

Genesys consolidates two practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... ease into retirement. In total, Genesys Wealth Advisers has part or full ownership in financial planning practices nationwide worth $20 million. "We've developed a model that allows Genesys to provide capital with ceding business control or removing ...

Life insurance next for nib

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... product market." One of Australia's fastest growing health funds, nib, provides health cover to more than 700,000 people nationwide. Last year it became the first Australian health fund to demutualise and list on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).

Centrelink lends hand on fin literacy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
... Financial Information Service (FIS) seminars, the scheme is not exclusive to Centrelink customers but is open to all. The nationwide seminars are conducted by FIS officers who are not financial planners so they do not provide advice regarding pensions ...