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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 ...

The unborn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... October 2008 and then the brown stuff hit the whirling stuff. Grexit, if it happens, takes us to uncharted waters where anything can happen - bad or good. Midnight's extension and that special eurozone leaders' summit on Monday suggest that both parties ...

Philo in growth mode after losing key mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... Centric remains "a very sophisticated service." "It was the most successful managed account put to market. I'm yet to see anything that approaches it for sophistication and utility at a client and adviser level," he added. Sanders said he was optimistic ...

PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... M&A technique, and equally shy when it comes to his personal life. He says that work hasn't left him with much time for anything else, but that he enjoys golf and skiing in North America. Kelaher forecasts a future with "intense competition between fewer ...

Super reforms to hurt retirees

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... these huge homes so that we don't have to build more of them in suburbs with no infrastructure." "And it doesn't cost anything because these people won't then get the Age Pension." Click here to download the latest edition of Financial Standard for your ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... from 96.2 in April. An RBA rate cut on the fifth and a "go for growth" Federal Budget on the 12th, why shouldn't we be anything but optimistic. Happier still are the indications provided by report's sub-components: consumer expectations over the next ...