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Reversal of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
An ill wind blew over this land girth by sea yesterday. Recall the 71,500 workers that found work in February - yes, that one...the one that's the biggest one month job gain since July 2000, the one that came in more than seven times market expectations ...

Bissaker sets sights on Big Four market share

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... Money Australia (VMA) Brian Bissaker said the tie-up with Bank of Queensland (BOQ) would lay the ground for an assault on the Big Four bank's market share. Bissaker told Financial Standard there would be significant additional investment to grow the ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... Street's running up and setting new record highs along the way. The release of the Fed's March FOMC meeting was last night's big news. It told a tale of the Fed explicitly discussing an exit strategy or perhaps "slow the pace of purchases beginning at ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... stimulus measures if the jobs market continues to improve as data released after the meeting was disappointing. "We've seen a big turnaround in sentiment amongst our clients, who are now positioned in expectation of (European markets) catching up with ...

Bissaker to head up Virgin Money

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
... we are challenger brands that offer something different to our customers and a genuine alternative to the sameness of the big 4 bank," Grimshaw said. Bissaker left the Commonwealth Bank in May 2012 after a restructure.

Missing the forest for the trees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
Another day...another fresh record for the Dow. But... but, wasn't it only last week that financial markets were almost peeing their pants because America has turned the corner back into cactusville yet again? Remember what the headlines told us last ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
The Australian share market has opened higher after investors regained some of their appetite to buy. The big miners and the major banks made early gains. IG Markets market strategist Stan Shamu said investors were using recent dividend payments to ...

Platforms press on in advice battleground

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... than pre-GFC numbers (78% back in 2005), the same report projects that by 2015, the number will stabilise at 70%, still a big chunk of the market. Reinforcing Investment Trends data, Rainmaker research estimates that 62% of adviser funds under advice ...

Vietnam an attractive fit for family offices

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
The second largest investor in the Vietnamese stock exchange after the Vietnamese government, Dragon Capital, is to meet with 25 family offices in Sydney and Melbourne this week. This is the fund manager's third trip to Australia in five years and represents ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... yen tumbling about six per cent against the dollar. This in turn has fuelled a run-up in Tokyo stocks, with exporters the big winners. In the first meeting under new governor Haruhiko Kuroda, the BoJ said it would double the money supply and aggressively ...