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Salary prospects brighten

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
The financial services sector is set to experience a growth in recruitment and salaries during 2011 owing to improved market conditions, according to a survey by recruitment firm Robert Walters. The survey, which covers all geographic markets, also ...

Hooray it's Oprah day

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... the reason people come to Australia is to see koalas and kangaroos... no matter why they come, when they get here they discover everything else that is here." Australia's financial industry may, according to former financial services minister Chris Bowen ...

Fairview beats benchmark by a mile

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... said Leigh Cronin, executive director at Fairview Equity Partners. "Combined with this broader outlook, we continue to discover companies with a solid growth outlook and which are less well understood by the market, providing opportunities for strong ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... What about tourism? What about those offshore-based companies that derive their revenues in foreign currencies? They'll discover their earnings not that much when translated back into Aussies. But for now, the appreciating Australian dollar is doing ...

ETF portfolio vs Future Fund portfolio shows gap

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
In an experiment to see how a retail investment portfolio made up mainly of ETFs compares with the Future Fund's portfolio, Financial Standard discovers key investment gaps. David Bassanese, director of PennyWise Investment Economic & Investment Consulting ...

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. ...

Fictional fact

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... overnight. Especially when you link these headlines to the significant gains of the previous day. Until you read more and discover that the Dow inched up by only 0.1 per cent and the S&P 500 closed only 0.2 per cent up. Not exactly the plus one per cent ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
It took Wall Street a full day to convince itself that there must be something in the sharp turnaround in Asian and European equity markets the other day. US equities rose only about half a per cent the day the others jumped between 2 per cent and almost ...

Rosenberg leaves AXA after review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
The founder of AXA Rosenberg, Barr Rosenberg, has resigned from the board of the US-based firm after an external review found he did not act in accordance with company policies, following a coding error from June last year. According to a letter to ...

AustralianSuper and AMP fight for super's most wanted

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
Investors looking to move their funds from one super fund to another are most likely to choose AustralianSuper, followed by AMP, PSS and QSuper, new research shows. According to CoreData's latest survey of 595 individuals, 9.9 per cent would consider ...