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Auction items for FICAP announced

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
A chance to play AFL on the SCG before a A Sydney Swans home match is just one of the prizes up for grabs at the live auction that will take place at the annual Financial Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) "Who Wants to be a RockStar" event to be ...

FICAP's "Who Wants to be a RockStar" sells out

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
The annual FICAP "Who Wants to be a RockStar" event has sold out with record support led by platinum sponsors ANZ, Challenger, Colonial First State and Perpetual. The event to be held at the Beresford Hotel in Sydney on Thursday 20 March sees members ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... restructuring -- designed to lift the country's growth and inflation at the same time. First arrow. Less than a month after Shinzo Abe san was elected PM in December 2012, he announced stimulus measures totalling around A¥10.3 trillion (was worth around ...

IOOF adapts distribution team for post-FoFA world

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
IOOF is the last of a number of organisations to restructure its distribution team in order to adapt to a post-Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) environment. IOOF will hire a head of Specialist Sales responsible for investment, self-managed, and tax ...

I swear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... higher yen doing? It's putting pressure on Japanese exporters and soon, the Japanese economy and soon, offset the BOJ and Abe's fight against deflation. And don't look ma... the Australian dollar is starting to strengthen again and that's even in the ...

Japan's coming April fools' day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014

Aberdeen AM appoints head of APAC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
Aberdeen Asset Management has promoted its head of the Australian fixed income team to head of Asia-Pacific fixed income business. Victor Rodriguez will head Aberdeen's Asia-Pacific fixed income arm and will relocate to Singapore at the end of 2014. ...

Watch central banks closely, warns Neuberger Berman

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014
Investors can expect slow but steady growth in 2014 and shouldn't completely rule out a modest interest rate rise before the end of the year, according to investment strategists at fund manager Neuberger Berman. The firm is expecting positive momentum ...

Reflation, rotation and the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
'Tis being my final type (drivel, to some gentle readers) for the year, we'll take a look back at the 2013 that was to seek the lessons it imparted and at the same time, divine what lies ahead at the other side of the New Year. Still beaming from the ...

Developed economies to outshine emerging world in 2014

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... adding to pressures on China and other emerging markets," they said in the report. Furthermore, Japanese prime minster Shinz? Abe's radical economic reforms are also aimed at increasing the world's third largest economies competitiveness. Abe has targeted ...