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Growth spoiler

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
Be careful what you wish for. After many, many years of drought, Australia got what it wished for - the green lawn inducing, agriculture produce growing rain. Suddenly the rural sector was looking good. Harvest would be a-plenty. Not only would Australians ...

Move beyond benchmarks: GMO

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... he said. Montier said there should be a greater focus on valuation, which he described as "the closest thing we have to a law of gravity in finance." "It doesn't matter whether you are looking at equities or fixed income - both show a clear pattern. ...

AIST hires trustee governance manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has appointed the former chief of Australian Lawyers Alliance, Eva Scheerlinck, to the newly-created role of trustee governance and professional standards manager. Scheerlinck will head up AIST's trustee ...

ASIC bans adviser for misleading conduct

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... ASIC release. Tran is not able to provide financial services after ASIC found her actions went against financial services law including communicating false information to a client and unauthorised discretionary trading. Tran was also found to revive ...

Court rejects Great Southern statement of claim

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... next year. In October, the bank claimed that a separate Great Southern class action led by DC Legal had "fallen over". The law firm discontinued its class action against the bank two weeks after the law firm launched its claim in the Federal Court of ...

Santa's in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
"Here comes Santa Claus, Here comes Santa Claus, Right down Santa Claus Lane..." The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) played Santa to Australians all by announcing no increase in interest rates yesterday. It may have to lift the official cash rate from ...

AusFIN calls for 'fairer outcomes'

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... Trade Unions (ACTU), consumer body CHOICE and the Industry Super Network (ISN). The network also counts the Consumer Action Law Centre, Finance Sector Union of Australia, Australian Financial Counselling and Credit Reform Association, Consumer Credit ...

Macquarie Wrap launches model portfolios

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
Macquarie Wrap will launch its latest model portfolio after trialing it with ten dealer groups to test functionality and capabilities. The launch marks the first stage in the delivery of its next generation wrap platform, the Macquarie Wrap Model Portfolios ...

US considers retirement reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... indexed to gains in longevity and raised to 68 by 2050 and 69 by 2075. "When Franklin Roosevelt signed Social Security into law, average life expectancy was 64 and the earliest retirement age in Social Security was 65. Today Americans live 14 years longer ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Pick your poison. There's a "Murphy's Law" event for every bear to choose from to shatter all hopes, prayers and wishes. Thanksgiving? No, thanks! As Mr. Murphy famously said, "If something can go wrong, it will!" It sure the heck did over the past ...