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ING DIRECT inks deal with advice association

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... future." The first FPA adviser consultation will be at no cost for Living Super customers and only a limited number of places for FPA Professional Practices will be available in the pilot stage. Initial participation in the pilot referral program will ...

Calls to mandate funds to offer social impact option

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... Australia. That's not a pipe dream," said Crosbie. "By adopting this incredible concept, it could happen. At least 50,000 new places in affordable housing could be created in one year. "The key - as shown in France - is to give employees an option to ...

Mother's Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... labor market indicators. One essential feature of our factor model is that its inference about labor market conditions places greater weight on indicators whose movements are highly correlated with each other. And, when indicators provide disparate signals ...

FSC, Deloitte name Future Leader Award winner

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... Australia when it comes to old-age poverty, Laura determined to find ways to improve the current ACOSS statistics that places 35% of Australians over 65 as living in poverty," he said. Bielinko considered the growing gap between life expectancy and the ...

Australian politics spooks foreign infra investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... as their greatest concern in the Australian market. "Australia is rightly regarded as one of the most stable and secure places for infrastructure investment, but the cancellation of Victoria's East West Link and Queensland's asset sales has clearly spooked ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... fifth-generation cotton farming family in Alabama who had stumbled across his CV four times through its global network from places as far flung as North Carolina and Hong Kong. The family flew Sowerby out to Alabama for three years and trained him in ...

New super Shadow Minister as PM acknowledges Labor's plans

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... "Australia's services economy will be even more crucial as we move from one relying on high commodity prices to one that places a higher value on innovation and human capital," Chalmers said. Chalmers replaces retiring MP Bernie Ripoll in the portfolio ...

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... observation has also dawned on Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota - nice to have company in high places. As reported by Dow Jones Business News, my new BFF Narayana, "...devoted part of his speech to trying to understand ...

Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... for a long period of time." In keeping rates on hold, the Fed's dovish statement downgraded the economic outlook in two places - describing activity as expanding at a "moderate pace" and later acknowledging that inflation compensation on TIPS (Treasury ...

University investment portfolio includes tobacco and beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... entering the portfolio. Among the portfolio's top 20 international shareholdings in emerging markets, British American Tobacco places second and accounts for 2.92% of the subdivision. Chinese media company Tencent Holdings is number one at 2.99%. At ...