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Another October to remember?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
Headlines upon headlines remains littered with MH17 and what happens next as the international community vents its anger on Russia. 'twas these headlines that reportedly downed Wall Street overnight. But we surely know what comes after the dip, 'eh ...

Down one day, dip buying the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
Just when we thought it was no longer safe to go back into the water...... dip buyers again went buying the dip. We don't have to go very, very far back in history to see this for this was clearly on parade just over the past very few days. Recall how ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
"Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace..." -- Imagine, John Lennon On their own, they could have been easily ignored by financial markets - and dip ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... rejects the notion that disclosure and literacy, while important, are sufficient to deal with the knowledge gap between buyer and seller. We observe in the interim report that the current disclosure-based framework has failed to adequately safeguard ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
id the holy spirit just give us a sign? Nah Virgina, I'm speak not of the one-third of the 'Holy Trinity' that is central to the Christian faith but the bank named after it in Portugal - Banco Espiritu Santo. Trading in scripts and bonds issued by Portugal's ...

Canadian pension fund buys AMP NZ property portfolio

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... ability than many investors to choose when to realise its investments. The opportunity to sell the portfolio to a single buyer was an attractive one." The Public Sector Pension Investment Board is a Canadian public corporation that manages around $80 ...

SSgA finds replacement for global head of strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) have appointed a global head of strategy after Bernard Reilly made the decision to return to Australia. SSgA confirmed that Keith Crawford who has been the fund manager's chief financial officer since April 2013 ...

IOOF and SFGA union rattles top ranks

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... Solutions managing director Steve Prendeville says "it has been known since late last year that SFGA was in the market for a buyer." To Prendeville, SFGA ticks all the boxes of a quality advice business: "it has built all the components of an independent ...

When Maslow's Theory and Marketing Collide

... description of marketing. He has long argued that selling focuses on the needs of the seller while marketing on the needs of the buyer. People often ask, 'what's the secret to good marketing?' Some people say there isn't one. Well, there is - and it's ...

States urged to recycle infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
The federal government is urging state governments to privatise infrastructure assets, with the creation of a $5 billion 'asset recycling initiative'. For a period of five years, the federal government will use this pool to pay state governments 15% ...