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We're not obsolete: Brokers defend their patch

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... way reflects a fundamental or structural change for an industry that he expects to remain relevant. While he admits that times are tough, Coppin says any consolidation was the result of a cyclical market bottom, which would inevitably improve. Despite ...

Fed's about to go... or not?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... Minutes But... yes, but, for the life of me I can't find the letters Q and E anywhere in the minutes. No matter how many times I tried and I tried and I tried, I can't get no, no, no, no... no Q and E. And that's why I had to put the word "action" in ...

Soros family office buys into Man United

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... through his family office investment arm, Quantum Partners. News of the purchase surfaced yesterday after the Financial Times cited a filing with the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). Soros now owns more than three million shares in the team ...

ACT prohibits guns & smokes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... portfolio is invested into tobacco and arms companies. ACT Treasurer and Deputy Chief Minister, Andrew Barr, told the Canberra Times, however, that the ACT Labor government will not support Greens legislation to extend the ban to companies related to ...

AMP updates FLP insurance offering

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... facto couples to increase their cover more easily," he said. GFI is a feature that makes it easy to increase cover at key times in a person's life, such as having or adopting a child and becoming a carer for the first time, without having to provide ...

Untargeted tax subsidies inept

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... for age pensioners and other seniors, resulting in the combined $90 billion spent on retirement policy being almost three times the national spend on education, 3.6 times what it spends on defence and 4.5 times what it spends on disability income support ...

China FDI flow slows, and?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... index jumped by 1.14%, the Nikkei-225 closed 1.9% on the up, Korea's Kospi index inched up by 0.1% and Singapore's Straits Times index gained 0.03%. Others fell, the biggest being the 0.9% drop in the Philippine SE index (but this owes more to the typhoons ...

Untargeted tax subsidies inefficient

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... support for age pensioners and other seniors, resulting in the combined $90bn spent on retirement policy being almost three times what the nation spends on education, 3.6 times what is spent on defence and 4.5 times what is spent on disability income ...

Vision Super issues shortfall liability notices

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
... all the government schemes, the local government scheme is treated differently, so it has to be 100% fully funded at all times and that condition isn't the same condition that's placed on the State and Commonwealth government schemes. "It does put what ...

Swan talks up bank reforms for competition

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... estimated $17.7 billion in home lending business from the big banks with non-major banks growing home lending at almost three times the rate of their bigger rivals over the past year. This represents a 1.5% gain in terms of Australia's $1.2 trillion ...