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Innovation to drive 2014 AFA Conference

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
The upcoming Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) National Conference is looking into the industry's post-FoFA future and focusing this year's event on the theme of innovation. With the regulatory environment all but finalised, the tagline for the ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... companies, including energy companies Gazprom Neft and OAO Rosneft, to its list of sanctioned businesses as well as 24 Putin "friends". The US expanded its sanction list too. But we're all aware of this. The 'West' and Russia will continue playing their ...

Unbelievably beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... July - a figure I suspected was highly suspect last month. But that's ok - what's a few percentage point miss between friends, correct? What's not ok is the unbelievably more than A-OK increase in Australians who found work last month. Consensus expectations ...

Clients prefer good reputation, knowledge over low fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... selecting a financial adviser are good reputation (9.4% of respondents), knowledge and expertise (9.4%) and the fact that friends or family have recommended the adviser (8.9%). Only 4.3% thought that affordable or low fees are key when choosing an adviser. ...

Deal with government brings in consumer protection: Palmer

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... really complicated set of protocols and legislation and put it into regulation on a weekend the day their promised their friends in the financial services industry that it would not go through," he said, referring to the government's move to table the ...

Senate votes against disallowing FoFA amendments

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... voted against and 31 in favour. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said during the Senate's afternoon session that "our friends at the Palmer United Party came to us with some positive suggestions, that's the way to legislate." To secure the PUP support ...

PROFILE: Invesco CEO Martin Franc

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... (ASIO). But that plan was soon cast aside following Franc's graduation in the early nineties. Despite the recession, several friends who had finished university a year or two ahead were brimming with excitement about the growth potential they saw in ...

Former finance broker convicted for fraud

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... Wales, admitted to using the identities of former clients to defraud a finance company to purchase two cars, sell them to friends and keep the cash from the sale. The fraud happened in July and August 2012 when Shiraz worked as a business manager with ...

When Maslow's Theory and Marketing Collide

... Again, using the Coke example, the 'share a Coke with a friend' campaign (where you bought a can of cola with your or your friends' name on it) was successful because it worked at the connection level - and made people feel good. So before rushing to ...