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PROFILE: MetLife head of distribution Michael Gooddall

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... Goodall's number one customer, coming in every Sunday with his wife Kathryn and two sons. Goodall says he remains close friends with the Greiner's eldest son to this day. It was doing this job that he got his lucky break into the financial services sector. ...

Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... request from a legitimate president, Yanukovych, on military aid to protect Ukrainian citizens."A He was only joking, my friends. But what-e-va... financial markets liked what they heard - some might even be thanking President Putin for giving them good ...

FICAP's "Who Wants to be a RockStar" sells out

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... Financial Group said: "When we first started this event more than eight years ago, we had to pull in favours from our friends in the industry to support the event. Now that the event is firmly entrenched on the calendar of the Sydney financial services ...

GenYs shy away from independent, professional advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
Young Australians rely mostly on family, friends and banks for financial advice, while accountants and financial advisers are out of favour, RaboDirect research has found. The 2013 RaboDirect National Savings & Debt Barometer (NSDB) found that 36% of ...

Subjected to interpretation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... increased from 333.8K to 334.0K last week. And no, I'm not saying I've enlisted to join the ranks of our pawed and furry friends but merely pointing out the madness in the markets - they see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear. Recall ...

Another 10 bil to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... started and intensified. The S&P 500 index fell by 5.8% over the same period. No probs...taper would go on. The problem, my friends, was that the yield on 10-year US Treasuries - the one the Fed is trying to keep down to stimulate well...almost everything ...

Fear not the fugly jobs report

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014

I spy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... know that every other government gathers information" and, in Australia's case, this information is used to "help our friends and our allies, not to harm them". Both Australia and Indonesia would be none the poorer if bilateral relations are severed. ...

Internet chosen ahead of professionals for advice

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013

Under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... ditching - no, not the witch (Kevin has knifed her back for him months before) - the carbon and mining taxes? The answer, my friends, is with the poll results. While the Australian Electoral Commission's latest count shows a clear win for the Coalition ...