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A 1987-style crash cometh (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
The Johnny Littles of the financial market world are once more coming out of the woodworks, proclaiming that, "A crash is coming, a crash is coming"! They point to the biotech and social media stocks that are fast running out of puff that could produce ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... acquisition of Investec Bank's professional finance division and posting a record half year cash profit of $140.2 million. The big four banks were lower, with ANZ down 30 cents to $33.89, Westpac had lost 28 cents to $34.58, National Australia Bank fell ...

Hockey signals pension age might climb to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... plans to raise the pension age to 67 over the coming decade suggesting that raising it another three years should not be too big a shock to the electorate. Nevertheless, Jeremy Hanson, ACT liberal party and opposition leader said on ABC Radio that the ...

FEATURE: The alpha hunters

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
At a glance, Australia's homogenous 'banks-and-resources' share market does not look like the most promising alpha hunting ground. But according to some of Australia's leading boutique fund managers, appearances can be deceiving. James Fernyhough reports. ...

Dumping dear momos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
Uh-oh, are we in trouble now (again)? Wall Street had a big fall overnight providing evidence to those who claim the previous day's bounce was that of a deceased feline. Reports are it's about the rotation out of dear (as in expensive not the lovey-dovey ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open sharply lower after big falls on Wall Street led by tech stocks. At 0800 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down 51 points at 5,425. The Nasdaq closed down 3.10 per cent with investors ...

CBA promoted Nguyen to keep him away from clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... "allowed to run wild, he was rogue." Berrill said that the problems were not limited to Nguyen and added that the bank had "a big cultural problem and boiler room mentality." "Nguyen had been so successful that he was being promoted as the 'pin up boy' ...

Could MySuper free-for-all lead to illegal inducements?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
The removal of super from modern awards could see the big banks employing illegal or dubious methods to get new employers to sign up to their MySuper products, according to Cbus chief executive David Atkin. Currently, super funds wishing to provide ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... relatively ordinaire. As ordinary as the IMF poking its nose at somebody else's budget -- must be almost Budget time folks. It's big news here in this land "girt by sea" this April morn'. Australians, all, let's NOT rejoice! For the IMF discovered that ...

Advisers under threat from robot replacements

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... paper stated. Researchers note that up until now, robots had been able to replace humans only on manual tasks. But the use of big data, algorithms and artificial intelligence will allow robots to replace humans in tasks that require subtle judgement ...