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Social media a counter-balance to info overload

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
Financial advisers can achieve immediate wins in the social media stakes if they only bother to properly service existing clients, ensure their LinkedIn profile is built efficiently, and overcome their fear of making a video. That was one of the key ...

Email tops in social media stakes

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
It may have been around the longest, but if he had to pick just one form of social media, Social Adviser founder Baz Gardner would choose email. This was just one of the many social media revelations that Gardner, host and organiser of this year's AdviserEdge ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... $98 million plan to buy regional airline Skywest has been given the go-ahead by the competition watchdog. "That tie-up with Sky looks pretty good for the airlines. It doesn't look like there's going to be any competition, but certainly it's another feather ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... course of last year. But that's exactly the point. You don't expect central bankers just to sit and watch and wait for 'the sky is falling' predictions to come true, do you? This year is expected to be better than 2012. The risk now is if fiscal and ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... cent, or 10.04 points, to 1,963.49, a near four-year low. WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares edged up to a new five-year high as Sky Network Television surprised investors with a special dividend and Tower said it would return capital to shareholders after ...

Hood Sweeney announces three new directors

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Hood Sweeney has announced the appointment of three new Directors to the highly successful South Australian professional services business. Hood Sweeney managing director, Matthew Rowe said the appointments of Keith Rutherford, Nicholas Edwards and ...

More young Americans worried about retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
The proportion of people in the US worried about how they'll fund their retirement has skyrocketed, and leading the charge is young people. A national survey of 2,508 people conducted by the Pew Research Center (PRC) has found that 66% of people are ...

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... feel it, can you feel it, can you feel it? Sure you can, it's all over the place - Chicken Little is going around crying "the sky is falling" (again). You can't miss it, not even if you close your eyes, cover your ears and your noses. Chicken Little ...

Super funds out-perform TDs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
Super funds delivering 12 month returns of 6.8% are now almost two-thirds higher than their cash term deposit counterparts. SelectingSuper has just reported that the workplace default option index for the 12 months to end August 2012 skyrocketed in ...

Blue Sky names investment manager

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has named Lachlan McMurdo as an investment manager in its private equity division. McMurdo joins Blue Sky from Bain & Company's private equity group where he worked as a consultant for three years. In his new role, he ...