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Wake up call for instos on staff retention

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
While the vast majority of the country's finance professionals want to remain living and working in Australia at the moment, four in five are considering moving out of the sector and into alternative industries. These were among the findings of eFinancialCareers ...

If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
After all is said and done, much was said but nothing was done. Risk-takers have every reason to feel disappointed for none of the central banks - Fed, ECB, BOE -- that met this week walked their talk (the BOE though didn't do much talking). There weren't ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... up 22.4 points, or 0.54 per cent, at 4,173.8 points. US stocks have soared, buoyed by a pledge from Europe's top central banker to do everything possible to save the eurozone from a raging sovereign debt crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished ...

Aust lags in financial job market

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
Australia is lagging the rest of Asia Pacific in financial services job opportunities. The latest quarterly data from eFinancial Careers showed that while Australia experienced a 37% decline in the number of opportunities in Q2, the average for the ...

IMF issues buy order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
Well, well, well. Don't look now folks for we may have just received the best indicator of the financial markets' direction over the next three months, at least. No Virginia, it's not yesterday's decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to sit ...

UK launches bank probe amid Libor scandal

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a full parliamentary inquiry into the British banking sector in the wake of a rate fixing scandal that has already claimed the scalp of Barclays chairman Marcus Agius. A bipartisan committee will hear ...

Australian instos exposed to AML risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
Globalising investment and increasingly complex webs of counter-party relationships mean Australian institutional investors are more exposed to anti-money laundering risks than they realise. These risks don't just mean from organised crime, the usual ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
Stop right there. If you believe that last night's reversal of fortune on Wall Street was really, truly because of "improved data on the US housing market" as the Australian Financial Review puts it or "as Home Data Tempers Economic Concern," as per ...

UK advisers should shift to planning

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... Michael Johnson, formerly Secretary to the Conservative Party's Economic Competitiveness Policy Group, is a former investment banker. He said the conundrum is that the wealth industry will continue to struggle revitalising itself if it remains supplier-driven. ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
Now look at that! Wall Street and most European stock markets ended on the plus side last week despite that nagging Grexit feeling - and its potential to be followed by an Irexit, Portexit, Spanexit and Italexit - that'll culminate in a eurozone kaboom. ...