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Client satisfaction up despite bad press

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
Bad press, a tough business environment and rising compliance costs have had little impact on the positive experiences customers of the country's leading advice firms have had over the last 12 months, according to a new comprehensive research report. ...

NAB, ABS insider traders jailed

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
After being charged in 2014 for insider trading, money laundering and abuse of public office, two men have been sentenced to jail. Reportedly Australia's largest insider trading scheme, the two men's activities resulted in profits of roughly $7 million ...

Former Gold Coast adviser sentenced

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
A former Gold Coast financial adviser has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for false and misleading statements and providing advice without a reasonable basis. Ian John Weaver, working at Enhance Capital and The Salisbury Group during the time ...

Hockey contemplates first home buyer access to super

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
The superannuation industry has reacted strongly to Treasurer Joe Hockey's comments that suggest the government could allow young Australians access to their superannuation to buy their first home. When asked if people should be able to use their super ...

It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
It's raining jobs...A hallelujah... it's raining jobs! Yes Virginia, I'm sure that you too are excited (and you can't hide it) seeing the latest instalment of the US non-farm payrolls report that showed most measures up. It was all up for the US labour ...

When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
The global economy will be better this year than last, but troubles in the Eurozone and the waning power of Abenomics mean investors will find better odds in the US and China, chief economists said at a Financial Standard forum last week. The videos ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... introduce screening is unclear, particularly given there is potentially a lot more money involved in these decisions. Another odd aspect of the ANU saga was that it quickly became a debate about fossil fuel divestment, when in fact the majority of the ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
Everything is political and especially so with the super-charged high stakes poker game on display in the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) where the battle lines were quickly drawn between financial product providers versus consumers. And after listening ...

The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
Get behind me ye men of little faith! There appears no pleasing us, Australians all. Whinge, whinge, whinge. We worry about our country's economic growth - by the by my neighbour still thinks we're in recession... we never got out of it since 2009 - ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
It's that time of the year again folks, the first Tuesday of November, when the "Race that Stops the Nation' - the Melbourne Cup - meets with the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy decision. I have lived in Australia (and Melbourne, at ...