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Microsoft battles Google Docs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Financial services data in the clouds? You betcha. At least that's what Microsoft is going to do from early next year when it launches a free web-based version of its boxed software, the ubiquitous Microsoft Office. Asian, Indian and African financial ...

ASIC charts margin lending requirements

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
The regulator has released two proposals on the training conditions for financial advisers and requirements for firms dealing in margin lending products. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) released the Consultation Paper 108 ...

Hedge funds lag index returns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
Global hedge funds trailed behind key global indices as markets staged a recovery although long term figures depict a different picture, according to the latest hedge fund research. The global hedge fund index, domiciled in US dollars, returned 3.5 ...

AFA conference to focus on leadership

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) highlights the importance of strong leadership skills at this year's conference, with keynote speakers including Darren Flanagan, the man behind the Beaconsfield mine rescue and Peter Baines, who helped lead ...

Tonight's the night

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... assumptions will look rationale, logical. But economies are dynamic and do not lend themselves into being fitted into a black box model. The mere unveiling of the Budget itself would cause a series of reactions and counter-reactions that would change ...

Out with the new old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
... believe that this time it's different? The financial markets are dynamic. Economies are dynamic. These cannot be put in a black box model that spits out a number 'assuming' that the parameters stay the same. They never are. They never will be. This is ...

Bonus hocus pocus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
... about the futility of introducing new regulations to ensure that the current global financial crisis does not escape Pandora's Box ever again. New regulations have been introduced, repealed and brought back through the course of history every time a ...

Health Super gives aid to fire victims

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
Health Super is helping bushfire victims by donating their call centre staff services, giving blood, and offering essentials to aid those in need. The $7.6 billion industry fund has donated the services of its call centre staff to the Red Cross Call ...

Faster than the speed of fright

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... Sybase Australia worked with IBM, MicroStrategy and Frontline Solutions to launch Sybase Analytic Appliance, an out-of-the box solution designed to reduce the burden on data warehousing and reporting - at up to 65 per cent less cost than existing products. ...

Mass modular advice to boost savings

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... meaningful advice to their members without breaching regulation? Coates believes they can but they need to think outside the box. "You can't just cut-and-paste existing advice models," he said. For example, while the planning industry currently champions ...