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Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Something looks wrong - very, very wrong - with how financial markets are conducting themselves nowadays. Investors greeted 2012 with almost universal agreement that the global growth outlook would be worse than it was in 2011 - the World Bank recently ...

Vow Financial launches interactive webinars

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
Mortgage aggregator Vow Financial has launched a program of interactive webinars to improve the skills base of its mortgage brokers. The webinar series, under the title of Vow Academy, extends over 12 one-hour sessions every two to three weeks and is ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Have you seen this morning's headline on theage.com.au? "'Ugliest' of times ahead." It's all about the World Bank's latest Global Economic Prospects report that, "signalled a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that ...

MLC cuts PDS down on flagship products

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
In accordance with the Government's June 22 deadline, MLC has cut the PDS for two of its flagship products to the required eight-page short-form after already releasing a short-form PDS for its MLC MasterKey Business Super in November last year. The ...

Get up and go on board

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
Schettino: "In this moment, the boat is tipping... Commander, please..." De Falco: "No, please. You now get up and go on board..." Schettino: "I am here with the rescue boats, I am here, I am not going anywhere, I am here..." This is my personally mouse-clicked ...

Priced in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
Standard & Poor's was at it - slashing - again last night. After lopping off one A out of France's and Austria's AAA credit rating at the end of last week, it did the same for the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF). According to S&P: "We consider ...

IOOF boosts active management, lowers fees

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
IOOF has announced plans to increase the exposure of its Multi Series Balanced Trust to active management while lowering its fees to 0.55% in a spate of upgrades for the trust. Part of the recently launched Pursuit Focus platform, the upgrades to the ...

The times, they're not a -changin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
It's a brand new year, yet why does it feel that times are not a-changin'? The problems of 2011 merely just got carried over into 2012. And if you believe those start of the year forecasts, the times could even be a-changin' for the worse - and the ...

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank buys Bank of Cyprus Australia

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has acquired 100% of the Bank of Cyprus Australia for $130 million with a $120 million share placement to selected institutional investors also underway. Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (BEN) reached agreement with the Bank of Cyprus ...

Maritime Super in new merger talks

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
Maritime Super has confirmed that the $3 billion fund is investigating new merger opportunities, with TWUSUPER thought to be a possible contender. Peter Robertson, chief executive of Maritime Super told Financial Standard that Maritime Super is in the ...