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Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... happy-ness is that the US economy is improving so go ahead Fed, make our day For the life of me, I really couldn't find anything fresh in the Fed statement... except for a few tweaks, here... and there. Aha! But it's the tweaks in semantics that people ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... experts thought it might elaborate on its plans for monetary policy. "We started off on the right foot and we didn't get anything negative from the Fed," said Michael James, managing director for equity trading at Wedbush Securities. LONDON - Europe's ...

RBNZ tries to turn the turn in NZ economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... housing asset base that is borrowed against without constraint fuelled by cash rich immigrants, Australia hasn't got anything." (Barry Johnson 2015-04-04 04:12) "...On the other side of the Tasman Sea, in New Zealand, the rise and fall of commodity prices ...

InvestSMART launches free robo-advice tool

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... securities," InvestSMART's service not only takes into account a user's existing investments (which he said would comprise anything listed on the ASX as well as property and cash) but allows them to tailor recommended products based on how relevant they ...

Green bonds set to soar despite policy

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... governments do not support renewable energies, Hayes said: "Whilst the uncertainty is not helpful, it's not obstructing getting anything done." He explained that viability of each infrastructure project is the key, but there are other reasons driving ...

Oxi Oxi Oxi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... next. It won't happen overnight, but it could happen. Then again, it might not but I wouldn't go daring Murphy's Law -- "anything that can wrong, will go wrong." And then 'Houston, we all have a problem'... if the Euro collapses. Remember that the Euro ...

Super funds battle with customer interfaces

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... preferred communication channel. We are a single service business - a superannuation fund - and are not trying to do anything else. We understand the advantage that banks have, but in contrast, I use my bank for transaction processing; I do not see the ...

PROFILE: Stanford Brown chief executive Jonathan Hoyle

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... & Co in 1993, which unfortunately collapsed a year later. "That was a great life lesson for me," he says. "Never take anything for granted. The company made a terrible bet on the direction of UK interest rates and had to be basically bailed out by the ...

Forward-thinking advisers benefit from opt-in deadline

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... founder and principal adviser Mike Sikar, though, forward-thinking practices that focus on client engagement shouldn't have anything to worry about. Speaking to Financial Standard, Sikar said that when he started his business, "I went straight away on ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... made -- and is still is making -- a lotta dineros by being greedy when everybody else was fearful and wouldn't touch anything Greece with a two meter selfie stick. After dropping to a near three-year low of 680.88 points last week, the Athex Composite ...