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ASIC charts margin lending requirements

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... requirement to apply to a licensee who issues a non-standard margin lending facility. "These are two of three consultation papers that ASIC intends issuing about its regulation of margin lending prior to the commencement of the margin lending regime," ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... benefits would be increased and what other benefits would the government hand out to Lucky Australians. And the Budget Papers? How many fish the pages could wrap and origami it could create. Ahh, the good old days. And why not? Times have been good. ...

Tonight's the night

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... are almost always wrong and mainly based on extrapolation of current events. Take for example last year's Federal Budget papers. The forecast? The Australian economy would grow by 2.75 per cent in 2008/09 fiscal year and then 3 per cent in the next. ...

Jobless rate in perspective

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... 94.8 per cent. According to reports, the unemployment rate is now one month short of its 4-year high. So what were the papers saying four years ago? Thanks to the ABC website -- which has a free archive -- I was able to access a news article posted on ...

Biggest Loser Part 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... the three months to December. Never mind the 'for extra effect' annualised contraction of 12.7 per cent reported in the papers, Japan's economy had never contracted this much since 1974. The UK has weighed in earlier in the year and reported that it ...

Focus on the good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... growth rate - shows the US economy declining by only 1 per cent in December. Ahh...but that won't get people rushing to buy papers would it? And to further put things in perspective, year-on-year US real GDP - thus far - had only peeped through under ...

Top guns tackle industry challenges

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
They don't have the answer for world peace but five young investment professionals were lauded this week for their papers that offer solutions to the challenges that have long confounded the investment industry. Renee Knapp, a senior claims consultant ...

Fed to bail-out corporate paper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... accommodate the credit needs of businesses and households." The plan will see the US central bank purchase unsecured commercial papers such as short-term IOUs issued by the banking sector, corporations and US municipalities in order to provide short-term ...

Wickham wins actuary of the year

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... been a consistent contributor to the profession over many years. He has written a number of thoughtful and provocative papers, challenging the way that we think about retirement savings and pension reform," Martin said. Wickham won the institute's Melville ...

Negline joins Rainmaker

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... pension, aged care, estate planning and insurance. Financial planners and advisory groups interested in submitting white papers for possible inclusion in the next edition of The Australian Journal of Financial Planning can contact Tony on [email protected] ...