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Aviva targets SME market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Aviva Australia has developed a program that provides all the tools financial advisers will require to adequately service the investment and insurance demands of small to medium enterprises (SME). The program, SME Professionals, is broken up into two ...

Cameron Stockbrokers fine-tunes team

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Cameron Stockbrokers is on the hunt for more advisers and brokers while it establishes a formal investment committee to lead the firm's investment strategy. The 30-adviser strong Cameron Stockbrokers, now led by former AMP Capital Investors head of ...

Lies, damned lies and statistics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
The Australian Bureau of Statistics - the National Bean Counter - has got it wrong. This was the main reaction to yesterday's fall in Australia's unemployment numbers. The Australian Labour Force Report showed that the country's unemployment rate fell ...

AFA calls for remuneration choice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has questioned the Financial Planning Association's (FPA) role in determining how the industry is remunerated. Richard Klipin, chief executive at the AFA, said the FPA's recent announcement that its membership ...

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the waters, a pig comes along. And if you've been following the headlines and the pig stories you'll be scared - very scared. Wall Street grew fearful as the reported infection tally of people and countries ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
You've been warned, Australia! Standard & Poor's and Moody's threatened Australia with a downgrade in its sovereign risk rating if the National Budget remains in deficit over the medium term. My, oh my, I am so scared. And so we all should be. Because ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger, Danger! No. I am not talking about the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) new World Economic Outlook report detailing how its forecasters changed their mind (again!) and now think that global growth would contract by ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
The Australian share market was stronger at noon AEST, with local banking stocks in particular benefiting from positive sentiment in the US financial sector. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 68.9 points, or 1.81 per cent, at 3,844.3, while ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
What are they up to? What do they hope to accomplish? I am talking, of course, about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and our very own Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan. What do they have in common? Both still have not learned their lessons. Both want ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
I'll keep the change, thank you. With these words, the National Australia Bank hammered home the point of one of the G20 protesters' slogans, 'Bankers, rhyme with ?' Yesterday's decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to reduce the official ...