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Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... the information about inflationary pressure and its timeliness." Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda talked about his country's problem with an ageing and declining labour force. Yes folks, problems, problems, problems everywhere on the labour market ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... 5,638.9. Traders were focused on China as the HSBC preliminary purchasing managers index (PMI), which tracks activity in the country's factories and workshops, slipped to 50.3 in August. WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares have risen for a third day as the ...

Countplus misses profit guidance

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... announcement, the company's results were "impacted by the business conditions for the small business sector across the country and the sale of a major poor performing business and the restructuring of another," it said. Countplus is an aggregation of ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... column on Bloomberg titled "Australia's Jobless Rate Should Worry the Fed" where Bill wrote that: "Folks in "The Lucky Country' have long been blessed with top-notch monetary policy makers. There has been no recession on the watch of Reserve Bank of ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... Airlines MH17 on 17 July. But we'll let sleeping dogs lie for now Toto. For now, Goldilocks is back in town in Uncle Sam country. Data out last night show good news on the housing front. Overall US housing starts soared by 15.7% to an annualised 1.093 ...

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... they're communist, because they shoot their own people, they haven't got a justice system and they want to take over this country. We're not going to let them do it." Dear Clive's ranting, in this case, is more trouble for Australia not China (depending ...

FEATURE: Have we reached the tipping point for managed accounts?

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... Managed accounts have been around for decades but it is not until relatively recently that they have caught on in this country as an alternative to managed funds. Like managed funds, managed accounts are professionally managed portfolios of directly ...

Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... and we will do everything possible so that the conflict ends as soon as possible".... and that, "We need to build our country calmly, adequately, and effectively without fencing off the outside world and not breaking relations with [our] partners, but ...

Suncorp CEO rewarded for profit growth

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... 64-year-old Englishman took home remuneration worth $9.12 million in the 2013/14 financial year, on par with the heads the country's largest banks and miners. That was up from about $8 million in the previous year, due to larger long term incentives ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... a possible Russian military incursion in Ukraine as Russia said it would send a humanitarian convoy to the east of the country, despite strong warnings from the West that Moscow should not act alone in case the operation is a cover for sending in troops. ...