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MyState sees small growth in profits

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... environment where top line revenue growth is challenging," MyState managing director Melos Sulicich said. "Overall, it was a tale of two halves. The first half saw a decline in the group's home loan portfolio due to soft economic conditions in our traditional ...

Exceeding your MAXpectations

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... advisers talk candidly of what investment and insurance products and services they wish are on offer in the market. 4. A tale of two cities - in the old world, retail and insto marketing and distribution are chalk and cheese. Not so in the new world. ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... setting new record highs along the way. The release of the Fed's March FOMC meeting was last night's big news. It told a tale of the Fed explicitly discussing an exit strategy or perhaps "slow the pace of purchases beginning at some point over the next ...

Fed money on the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... the fiscal cliff. Yes, that's it. Tomorrow, we'll just change the word 'optimism' to 'pessimism' should the tape tell a tale of woe. I could stop here and my column for the day would be over but there was one other thing that caught my eye when I was ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... heaven, we were all going direct the other way..." No Virginia, I must admit I haven't read Charles' (Dickens) immortal 'A Tale of Two Cities' classic but for the opening lines above and perhaps one or two paragraphs here and there. I recalled Charles' ...

Bold predictions of US recovery

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... public spending, housing and strong private sector balance sheets as evidence for optimism. "We would view this year as a tale of two halves," said Baur. "We think growth initially will be a little slow - under 2% as there'll be some payback as tax incentives ...

How high and how long

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." These words from Charles Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities, have again been brought to life by two opposing monetary prescriptions by two central banks - further interest rate hikes for the ...

A tale of confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... where institutions are neither allocating towards nor away from risky assets." So there we have it ladies and gents -- a tale of three confidence measures. All weakened by the hard slog of waiting for the mixed economic readings to point in only one ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... the current and future state of our financial fortunes reminded me of the immortal lines from Charles Dickens' book, "A Tale of Two Cities". The past three months - the best of times (at least for equities and commodities) -- sent the bears scampering ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... Australia's reaction to the big two and see whether they too could get away short changing or keeping the change altogether. A tale of two banks. These banks know full well what the RBA rate reduction was intended for - to put more money in the battler's ...