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LMCI: a new indicator is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
Mother's made an outing last Friday night in America - and she came bearing good tidings. Mother, of course, is the US non-farm payrolls report - considered "the mother of all economic statistics". US employment increased by 248K last month following ...

Ridout made honorary Doctor of Business

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
AustralianSuper chair Heather Ridout has been made an honorary Doctor of Business by Macquarie University for her "considerable contributions to business, industry and indigenous education promotion." The honour comes just over a year after Ridout was ...

OneVue re-signs IMAP sponsorship

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
Wholesale superannuation services provider OneVue has renewed its sponsorship of the Institute of Managed Account Providers (IMAP). OneVue head of platform strategy, sales and service David Storm said that the range and complexity of products in the ...

ASFA releases 'first of its kind' best practice paper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has developed an investment management best practice paper, for use only by its members. According to ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos, the paper is the first of its kind not to have been ...

UK FCA to review social media guidelines

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is conducting a review of how wealth groups use social media to promote their products following concerns that more regulatory clarity may be needed. The review which was launched last month and closes in November ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
I'll be ROFL - rolling on the floor laughing - this morning if not for the fact that it's the big boys playing with nuke toys that are escalating their tit-for-tat aggression... even if they hurt themselves in the process. Instead, me, myself and I ...

Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
Oh well, at least I got that one right. Er, half right to be fully correct. I was so wrong in thinking that the growing tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan as the next big 'crisis' to watch out for but I was bloody right that it would be Vlad that ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
"Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace..." -- Imagine, John Lennon On their own, they could have been easily ignored by financial markets - and dip ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker appears to have celebrated America's 'Independence Day' three-days early. You'd be jingling your bells and singing hallelujah too, Virginia, when you look at what ...

Advisers applaud "historic" ban on commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
Financial advice associations and the Financial Services Council (FSC) have applauded the "historic" ban on commissions in general advice and welcomed the government's changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) law. "We are extraordinarily pleased ...