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Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... wanting to strengthen their domestic economies by beggaring their neighbours. The Act achieved the opposite effect. While USA Inc. achieved its goal of import reduction - down 66 per cent to US$1.5 billion in 1933 from US$4.4 billion in 1929 - export ...

SimCorp partners with AIM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010

Birth of the iPad adviser

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
Dealer group Synchron's training conference next month for its financial advisers will be run entirely on an iPad, setting a technological milestone in the planning industry. Some 50 financial advisers who are attending the group's Next Generation Training ...

Planes, trains & automobiles and the bush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... political party "we voted for" last 21 August, campaigning has kicked off on our big brother's shores. It's Labor Day in the USA, heralding the start of the period when US politicians promise each every American that they will mow their subjects' lawns ...

Real assets are the future of investing

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... Consulting Conference yesterday. Unforeseen and unpredictable forces ranging from food security to the race between China and USA to secure international supply chains are all now having an impact on the investing market with new trends and surging prices ...

Legal risks pose social media stumbling blocks

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
Lack of clarity around the regulation of blogs and other social media networks is preventing many investment firms from making the big leap to Web 2.0 - but consumer usage of social media in their day-to-day life will force firms to come up with a solution. ...

Which way USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... he made that now famous "unusually uncertain" economic outlook? Initial estimates by the US Commerce Department showed that USA Inc. grew at annualised 2.4 per cent in the June quarter. This is a little less than consensus expectations of a 2.5 per cent ...

Aviva, AMP and CommInsure top insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
Aviva has been named the overall leader in the life insurance sector, with AMP and CommInsure following close behind, new research from Investment Trends show. Investment Trends named Aviva, AMP and CommInsure as the benchmark setters in the life insurance ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... cent fall in exports more than offset the 0.4 per cent decline in imports. The rest of the world is buying less "made in the USA" goods and services. America is consuming less "made outside the USA" products. Trade detracted around 0.7 percentage points ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... any sector dragging on the market, it is the healthcare sector, after CSL got downgraded today, after its counterpart in the USA had an earnings downgrade," Mr Taylor said. Trading on Wall Street on Monday was mixed, with banking stocks dragging the ...