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Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
"What's the point of going out, we're just going to end up back here anyway?" Must give it to Homer, he really spits out good logic. Nah, not the literary giant that penned the Iliad and the Odysssey, but Homer the Simpson. Homer's words came to mind ...

FEATURE: Big data and financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
It has changed the way friends interact with each other, the way people think and express themselves and, above everything, it has changed the way people buy. Consumers want to be able to buy anything, at any time, through any device. Companies in all ...

NAB takes a $1bn hit

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
National Australia Bank has flagged a slide in its full year earnings of up to 14% after taking a more than $1 billion hit to its books. Today the bank unveiled a string of writedowns and provisions, chiefly linked to misconduct by its troubled UK business. ...

PROFILE: UniSuper CEO Kevin O'Sullivan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
In July 2013 Kevin O'Sullivan became chief executive of one of Australia's largest superannuation funds, UniSuper. Just over a year on, he catches up with James Fernyhough to talk retirement income, the value of asset consultants, and the future of ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
In droves they returned... the bargain hunters, the bottom fishers and the dip buyers - turning the previous day's see on Wall Street into last night's saw. All are thanking the friendly International Monetary Fund (IMF) for opening up another entry ...

YBR's cash fund receives new ratings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
Yellow Brick Road's newly branded funds management business Smarter Money Investments has received two ratings for its Smarter Money Active Cash Fund. Australia Ratings, a new credit rating agency founded by former Standard & Poor's Managing director ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
The Australian share market is flat with gains among the major miners offset by the major banks. Better commodity prices and excitement about a possible merger between Rio Tinto and Glencore Xstrata had bolstered resource stocks, IG Markets market strategist ...

LMCI: a new indicator is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... a 215K addition. Better, the unemployment rate now has a five (5) in front of it. Mother said it dropped to 5.9% in September - the lowest in six years - from 6.1% in the previous month. Good news for the economy... bad news for interest rates. Rate ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
The Australian stock market is slightly lower, following a mixed lead from overseas. European markets finished sharply lower overnight, with Germany's DAX 30 down two per cent amid disappointment with the European Central Bank's latest stimulus plans. ...

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
Draghi dropkicks markets. Super "whatever it takes" Mario has promised a lot... but delivered short. Hence, we got what we got last night. The euro reversed its decline, so did euro bond yields and European equity indices dropped. The Euro Stoxx-600 ...