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Bridges MD leaves to join MDS Financial

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
Bridges Financial Services' managing director has left the IOOF-owned licensee to join MDF Financial group as executive director of marketing and distribution. Michael Carter's appointment follows MDS Financial's acquisition of Sequoia Financial Group ...

Patience, my dear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
"Ooh love me, please, just a little bit longer Together we can make it..." - Yvonne Elliman Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. Speculations leading up to this, and interpretations, dissections - and more speculations - of the US Federal Reserve's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street fell on renewed anxiety over falling oil prices and the rising US dollar. At 0805 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down 11 points at 5,801. In local economic ...

SMSF growth driven by investor satisfaction

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
The relative level of satisfaction with self-managed super fund (SMSF) performance is a likely driver for SMSFs' continued growth and significant market share, according to Roy Morgan Research. Roy Morgan's findings are based on a survey of 15,084 superannuation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street lifted following disappointing retail sales figures which bolstered the case for keeping US interest rates low. At 0803 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... surprise of surprises. Similarly, the annual growth in US export prices dropped to minus 5.9% last month from minus 5.1% in January - they have been negative since September last year. Slumping US export prices indicate the loss of America's pricing ...

ASIC bans Charterhill director from financial services

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
Charterhill Group founder and director George Nowak has been banned by ASIC from practicing financial services until 3 July 2017. The grounds for the ban are that Nowak is an undischarged bankrupt, having applied for personal bankruptcy in July 2014. ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
"Baby, baby, baby oooh Like baby, baby, baby nooo..." - Justin Bieber "Baby, baby, baby oooh." Another month, another strong and better-than-expected US non-farm payrolls report. US businesses added another 295K heads to their payroll (versus expectations ...

Retail super bounces back

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
The SelectingSuper MySuper (ie Workplace) rolling 12 month performance index made a remarkable recovery during January as it surged 320 basis points to reach 11.5%, with retail MySuper products stretching their short term segment lead to 0.7%. Three ...

No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... March's interest rate cuts outside of its scheduled Board meetings. The Indian central bank cut interest rates on 15 January - weeks before its scheduled 3 February meeting. Yesterday's move (4 March) was also weeks ahead of the scheduled 7 April monetary ...