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Advisers ignoring estate planning gold mine

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
AMP and independent financial planners were warned to stop ignoring the wealth of referral and business expansion opportunities estate planning presents to the industry and instead embrace this market, in an industry address this morning. The AMP Estate ...

Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... last month with Congress over the debt ceiling would make him gun-shy, by proposing a jobs stimulus package that is nearly as big as the entire Australian commonwealth annual budget. Adjusted for relative population size, president Obama's US$300 billion ...

Inflation not currency worrying the RBA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
Anyone who thinks the Reserve Bank was about to cave into pressure for lower interest rates to take pressure of the AUD should read their rates decision statement from yesterday because it seems they were closer to lifting them than they were to lowering ...

Trouble building in the housing market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... compared to the 179,000 annual housing growth that is required, it's clear a pressure point is on its way. "There is a very big inequality between generations that is building up. I think that is a social problem as much as an economic one," he said. ...

Super merger prompted by industry transition

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... do it in a cost effective and efficient manner and you need scale to do that," said Lander. "Scale is important but being big is not our value proposition, we still want to deliver more personalised services, features and benefits that our research tells ...

FOFA levels playing field: ANZ Wealth

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... underinsurance and superannuation that will unite the wealth management industry and force different players to work together. "These big public policy areas will ultimately unite everyone, even the industry funds and retail sector agree super is important. ...

It's official, Rudd saved Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
It is being reported today that Treasury believe it was really former prime minister Kevin Rudd who saved Australia from the GFC and not the mining industry, but before we get too excited the analysis simply confirms that we don't just have a two-speed ...

IMF just as baffled as we are

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
Global pressure to contain debt is ironically one of the biggest threats to the world economy, warns the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde. Writing in the Financial Times, Lagarde said world economic confidence ...

MyState builds momentum with Rock merger

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
Tasmania's biggest financial services firm MyState has agreed to a merger with Queensland based The Rock Building Society to form a combined business with $1.68 billion in funds under management and advice. MyState, which consists of MyState Financial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... support the US economy. Also, futures contract prices for major commodities such as oil, gold and copper settled firmer. The big retail banks were lower. ANZ had slipped 11 cents to $20.07, CBA was down 35 cents at $47.58, NAB has backpedalled 25 cents ...