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Extensions - What the Greeks await and the Russians hate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
As Yogi Berra famously quoted, "it ain't over till it's over." Elvis is still in the building. Optimism over a Greek bailout deal has hit a roadblock (again), prompting financial markets to give up some of the gains made over the past few days. But ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
Now that Grexit worries have been sorted - sort of - and a Graccident averted (yet again), financial markets are likely to look for the next big worry. They don't have to scour far, wide and yonder - it was out-headlined by Greece these past few days ...

Sydney house prices up 5-times national average

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Reinforcing concerns over rising Sydney property prices, the ABS latest house price index reveals the harbour city's home prices to be rising more than 5-times faster than other capitals. In the 12 months to March 2015 the ABS reported Sydney prices ...

Life risk sales falling

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Individual death, total permanent disability (TPD) and trauma insurance sales fell by 8% to $280 million in the March quarter, according to research by DEXX&R. DEXX&R's report notes that this time is "traditionally the slowest quarter" for insurance ...

John Waller retires from NAB, BNZ

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
John Waller will retire as a National Australia Bank board member and as chairman of Bank of New Zealand and be replaced by Doug McKay. Waller has been an NAB non-executive director and chairman of its subsidiary BNZ since 2008 and will leave those ...

Infrastructure returns beat equities, bonds

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Global infrastructure returns outperformed bonds and equities in the year to Q1 2015. This is based on MSCI's Global Quarterly Infrastructure Asset Index, which shows global infrastructure returned 18.1%. This compares favourably to MSCI's global indices ...

Animal spirits may be playing with fire

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
Animal spirits are playing a significant role in expenditure decisions by Australian firms even though rates of return and other influences may offer a more unbiased company position. This is one the key findings among research from the Reserve Bank ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, after Wall Street stocks rose one per cent overnight. At 0704 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up 39 points at 5,505. The Nasdaq has powered to a fresh record, easily ...

SMSF investors reducing cash and shares

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) investors are reducing holdings in cash and term deposits and listed shares according to the latest data from OneVue. Reduction rates in these investment classes have slowed over the past two years yet they still ...

AFA, FPA yet to commit to FSC life risk agenda

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
Both the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) have refused to comment on whether a final consensus has been reached on the way forward for risk advice reforms. This follows the report in Financial ...