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Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... less favourable conditions - for instance, at higher interest rates or during a period of weaker economic conditions." I'm pretty (pretty not 100%) sure that the banks are aware of this and are actively engaged in their own prudential risk management. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... inflation easing to a four-month low, fuelling the case for a further easing in monetary policy. "The markets are behaving in a pretty orderly manner," said SMBC Nikko Securities general manager of equities Hiroichi Nishi. "The Nikkei might test the ...

PROFILE: Folkestone MD Greg Paramor

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... company. Growth Equities Mutual (GEM) was founded in 1981 and, as it turns out, the timing of that first investment was pretty good. "It was a rather opportunistic venture," Paramor says. "We launched it at the start of an unbundling process for the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... chief market analyst Ric Spooner said the local bourse had made a positive start. "It's quite a positive start given a pretty modest lead from US markets and given also concerns about what's going on in Ukraine," Mr Spooner said. "We appear to have put ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... be in the top drawer remain hostage to uncertainty about the future pace of demand." "That's actually nothing new. It's pretty normal at this point of the cycle. There is always a period in which people can see that many of the conditions for expansion ...

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... nearly six years of it... on QE. Janet is in a perfect position to advice Mario on what Mario is expected to embark on... pretty soon. I, too, wait in anticipation. But Wall Street, it seems, has already jumped the gun for contrary to what the headlines ...

Licensee transparency far more urgent than advice register

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... sort of advice failure, we're going to be judged on our behaviours today, not about what we said we would do or about the pretty symbols that we put in place." Fox said that transparency about why an adviser leaves a dealer group "maybe fits into the ...

Lump sum rules 'utterly unsustainable': Sherry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... Australia, because we means test the age pension. If the age pension is going to 70 and your super access age is 60, there's a pretty obvious arbitrage." He said, while there is a great deal of discussion about increasing the availability of annuities ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... Ukraine. "The caution has been holding back the major markets," Mr Daghlian said on Wednesday. "It's been a bit volatile but pretty quiet so far this week. That's because there is a number of major events in the next three days that investors are waiting ...

Australian Unity in talks to buy Premium Wealth Management

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... on focused on partnering with accountants and authorising those who want to be authorised," he said. "Premium has been pretty focused on the accountants' area and this was a good logical opportunity to expand our presence in this area." Australian Unity ...