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Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... non-manufacturing PMI, retail sales, industrial production - have improved towards the end of last year. Is that 'em Australians I can hear shouting 'hip, hip...'? The economic and financial market world could have easily turned out the way the World ...

MetLife makes senior appointment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013
MetLife has appointed Damien Green to lead its Employee Benefits business in Asia. Green will be based out of Hong Kong and will start with the company in February 2013. He will report to Christopher Townsend, president of Asia for MetLife. "I am extremely ...

Brad Fox Appointed AFA CEO

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
... to applying my skills for and on behalf of the advice industry," he said. "I am passionate about the need for more Australians to receive life changing financial advice. Leading the AFA is a great opportunity to help the advice profession influence ...

High rates saving Australia's economy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
... argument after the Fiscal Cliff talks will be again extending the debt ceiling. This irrationality should galvanse Australians' minds why the RBA's decision to start raising rates here up towards 4.75% in 2009 when US rates were crashdived to near to ...

Australian pay rate growth underperforms Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... productivity growth differentials. A survey just released by the global management consultancy, Hay Group, reports that Australians should experience average pay rises of just 4% in 2013, much lower than our Asian neighbours. In particular they expect ...

Wealth CEO's lambast regulatory reforms

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... transparency in the industry, this means that it could fail on the second pillar of making advice accessible to more Australians, Brogden said. The survey received 63 responses, and 19 confidential interviews were conducted with CEO's of companies that ...

Advice tech more than back office tool: JP Morgan

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... income projections and demonstrate the immediate benefits of financial strategy to the client." Approximately 7 million Australians now have access to Provisio's advice technology through Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, AustralianSuper, VicSuper, HESTA Super ...

Cbus and HESTA take out top AIST awards

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
Cbus super and HESTA have taken out the top two honours at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) 2012 Awards for Excellence. Construction industry fund Cbus took out the award for best annual report, after its 2011/12 report demonstrated ...

It's just plain dumb

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... index has clocked up a decent 12.3% return to date while the Stoxx 600 has advanced by more than 14.0%. Yet it's us, Australians all, who appear to be more worried than the slow growing US economy or the recessed European one. Our equity market - as ...

Murdoch matriarch remembered for charity work

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... privacy. News Limited CEO Kim Williams said she was "an extraordinary national figure who inspired generations of Australians through her selfless devotion to helping others and by her leadership and her remarkable generosity in fostering both scientific ...