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I'm still standing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... even as the US Federal Reserve completed and ended QE2. Financial markets rallied despite no hints of QE3 on the way. The USA economy must be doing A-OK. Optimism is such that bad news fell on deaf ears. Just imagine if RBA director Warwick McKibbin's ...

Financial services honoured with Queen's favour

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... chairman of directors and president of the AFA Queensland, a life member of the International Million Dollar Round Table (USA) and achieved 28 years of membership and has been recognised on its World Honour Roll. Currently he is the Queensland Trustee ...

BBY expands with Stonebridge acquistion

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... corporate advisory and asset management firm with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, UK and UAE along with a global presence in the USA and Asia.

Retiree internet use hits 80 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
One the myths of the internet age is that the web is for the young digitari while older Australians inhabit the analogue world. However, research contained in the 2011 Sensis Social Media Report reveals a fundamentally different picture. It found that ...

China's HNWs hold $1.2tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
China's economy is now advancing so quickly that its high net worth sector is already worth almost as much as Australia's entire superannuation market but growing four times faster. According to research just released by global consultant Bain & Company ...

Backpedals

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... sustainable? Well, here's news for you my dear friends, job creation had been above 200k for the past three consecutive months. USA is on its way! But speaking of backtracking, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) seems like it's done some of its own. ...

Poor standard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... and other structured investment products rated-AAA that weren't. They've lost money on heeding its announcement warning of a USA triple-A downgrade, that wasn't. Has anything changed in two days? Has the US of A suddenly paid back all its debt or even ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... America. But back to America. If it has taken the Standard & Poor's warning for you to realise that there's a debt problem in the USA, where were you in the past month, year, decade, two decades? The bottom line is that this is much ado about a known ...

Industry still lagging on green IT

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... was the smaller firms fairing better. The four countries' financial services sectors ranked UK first with a score of 63.8, USA at 60.3, Australia at 53.9 and India at 51.1. The target score is 75-80. They were judged on lifecycle (procurement and disposal) ...

Twittering social media takes time

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
Superannuation professionals have been told that powerful social media campaigns are "slow burners" and warned by a Deloitte technologist that they need to be patient to see the results. Speaking at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia ...