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FICAP RockStar of the year crowned

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... of Weave's 'Kool Kids' program. Trei Stewart, also part of the program, opened the evening with the Acknowledgement of Country. Weave director Shane Brown said: "The Kool Kids program has been running for 13 years, and we work with 160 kids a year. 89% ...

AllianceBernstein appoints MD of insto relationships

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... appointment: "Having worked as a consultant in Australia early in my career and taken some of the pioneering work we did in this country to the UK and Europe, I now look forward to bringing back some of the insights I gleaned from the northern hemisp ...

Dealer group Infocus buys MLC shares, becomes independent

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... be chosen to help them get there." Infocus has more than 110 aligned advisers working in over 70 practices around the country, it has around $3.2 billion in funds under advice and $48 million in risk premiums under advice. Infocus also manages $285 million ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... 14". No! This is because the yuan's depreciation is all happening in the name of "liberalisation" - music to a capitalist country's (read, US) ears. Instead of threatening to brand China as a "currency manipulator" as it did several times in the past ...

FEATURE: Insuring against longevity risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... solution: longevity insurance. There is no doubt that Australia's superannuation system is doing something right. For a country of just 23 million people to have the fourth largest pool of retirement savings in the world is quite a feat. The enormous ...

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... what about the weaker-than-expected reports out of China? It's rebalancing and even if it's not, easing inflation in the country gives the PBOC scope to move... and it has more than sufficient means to do it.

You go NZ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... exited the club - the record low interest rates developed nations' club - this morning with its decision to raise the country's official cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75%. This, according to Governor Wheeler's statement, is because, "New Zealand's ...

J.P. Morgan launches two wholesale funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... benchmark. This means that we have the flexibility to implement our most compelling trade ideas without being tied to any country, sector, or duration target and allows us to focus on such opportunities across the market cycle." Elaborating on the emerging ...

PROFILE: MetLife head of distribution Michael Gooddall

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... easily have gone down any number of different career paths. Goodall's father was a journalist, initially with Queensland Country Life before relocating the family to Sydney to take a job with Fairfax. The fondness with which Goodall speaks of the profession ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... previously reported 0.3 per cent. Russian gas giant Gazprom's threat to cut off supplies to Ukraine, which is the major transit country for the rest of Europe, also put the chill on stocks. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of ...