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When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
It really does pour when it rains. I'm talking about the pouring of positive economic and survey stats primarily out of America in recent months and the optimism it engenders in investors everywhere and the virtuous cycle that this optimism has started ...

Take advantage of current concessional caps: OnePath

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
Advisers should urge their clients to take advantage of current super concessional caps, with legislative uncertainty surrounding contribution limits for the over 50s from July 1. That's according to Andrew Lowe, head of technical sales strategy at ...

TSCGEMU

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
It's a wrap! It took days of high drama to get there, but it got there eventually. That's the Greek second bailout package of course. Standard & Poor's didn't like it and lowered Greece's rating to "selective default". Moody's followed suit a few days ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
The Australian dollar has lifted almost one US cent, on the back of optimistic business data from Germany, and commentary from the Australian reserve bank. At 1200 AEDT on Friday, the Australian dollar was trading at 107.46 US cents, up from 106.47 ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
"Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones." - The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster The optimism that warmed financial markets for the best part of the first six weeks of 2012 has been dented by the comeback of the European sovereign ...

Annual fee collation too complex: FPA to PJC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Bernie Ripoll has grilled the Financial Planning Association over claims the proposed annual Fee Disclosure Statement (FDS) as part of FOFA is unnecessary. Speaking at ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Something looks wrong - very, very wrong - with how financial markets are conducting themselves nowadays. Investors greeted 2012 with almost universal agreement that the global growth outlook would be worse than it was in 2011 - the World Bank recently ...

Wagging the dog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
To all those who have Christmas lunches - long liquid lunches - to go to today, go now pronto for developments in the financial markets last night was another one of those "ho-hum" moments. Not that you'll pick it from the headlines and stories doing ...

Actuarial certificate delivery speeds up

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
Supercorp's self managed superannuation fund software superMate has teamed up with Bendzulla Actuarial to significantly speed up the delivery of actuarial certificates online. The new streamlined process for ordering certificates, which relate to exempt ...

Weekend worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
The weekend is coming - another worry weekend. For about 3 weeks running, European policymakers have kept us hanging and guessing about what lies ahead the Monday after. Consider this: We spent the 22-23 October weekend worrying over France and Germany's ...