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Stop illegal early release of super: ASIC

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
ASIC has fired its warning shot on illegal early release on super - and is appealing to trustees to help plug increasing cases spurred by losses from the GFC. ASIC is concerned that the current market conditions are contributing to an increase in the ...

Lucky, lucky, lucky

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
Australians all let us rejoice! We should be so lucky. Lucky. Lucky. Lucky. For a teeny-weeny land that represents only around 2 per cent of the global economy, nobody expected that this "lucky country" would be this lucky. While the biggest economies ...

Independent directors not always a good thing

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
It's a contrarian thought but banks and financial institutions should not put too much emphasis on independent directors, as industry aligned directors are likely to bring more value after the GFC, said an academic expert. RenA(C)e Adams, professor ...

Danger signs ahead but bargain stocks a-plenty: Faber

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Leading contrarian investor Dr. Marc Faber wears his "ultra bearish" cap in his Australian visit, predicting another financial crisis could happen in the next five to 10 years - but even that doesn't mean there aren't any investment opportunities, particularly ...

Intra-fund advice relief opens super funds to lawsuits

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... money in the long term. "The good news is that the new rules means super funds can go on the online advice path but the danger is that they will start building a whole lot of sleek marketing tools which don't embody a robust financial planning process," ...

Ways to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
"The government is not contemplating another round of cash payments," Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) early this week. This could be interpreted as either the Australian Government does not want to ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2009

The best of the best in financial services marketing, sales and business development battled it out in this year's Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards, with the winners announced last night at the Shangri-La hotel in Sydney. This year's event gave ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... us who have beaten ourselves down into depression are finally realising that, it isn't so bad after all. Surprise! The danger lies in the developing fad of governments now looking beyond the global financial crisis and focusing on their expanding deficit ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger, Danger! No. I am not talking about the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) new World Economic Outlook report detailing how its forecasters changed their mind (again!) and now think that global growth would contract by ...

Governance indices create illusions: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... governance doesn't mean it caused it, they argue, as companies with poor governance indices can also perform well. "The danger for investors, particularly the more poorly informed, is that indices create the illusion of certainty regarding an assessment ...