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Planners Best Practice Awards closing soon

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013

Let 'em rip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013

FPA granting consumers inside access to funds management industry

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... in Sydney in October. The FPA is holding a breakfast for planners and their clients at its inaugural FPA Professional Congress. The breakfast will be hosted by Platinum Asset Management chief investment officer Kerr Neilson. The FPA also invites financial ...

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LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... 21,345.22 while Shanghai shed 1.05 per cent, or 21.52 points, to 2,023.40. In the first of his two days of testimony to Congress, Bernanke told Representatives the vast bond-buying program would remain in place until the Fed is happy the economy can ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... following Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's reassurances on the tapering of US stimulus measures. In his testimony to Congress, Dr Bernanke said the Fed would likely scale back its $US85 billion-a-month bond-buying program later this year, but ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said tapering of stimulus measures was not on a "preset course". In testimony to Congress, Dr Bernanke reiterated that the Fed would likely scale back its $US85 billion-a-month bond-buying program later this year ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... snapped a three-day streak of records as investors looked ahead to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to Congress. At 0700 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was down six points at 4,941. In economic news ...

The Big Benny sings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... quota...but there are more: In his testimony before the Joint Economic Committee on 28 March 2007, Ben S. Bernanke told the US Congress that, "At this juncture, however, the impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... to open higher despite falls on major overseas markets following Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to congress and the release of the central bank's policy meeting minutes. At 0750 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... Street finished down despite a morning rally during the early part of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to Congress. At 0753 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down 20 points at 5,151. No major economic ...