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Good news from bad stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... for the Fed to take or whether or not the previous ones helped but at this point, my sense is that Wall Street has pushed Big Benny's back into a wall. All and sundry have locked that call in by the looks of it. He wouldn't want to frustrate already ...

UK pension liabilities bigger than the bank

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
Falling global equity markets have caused UK pension liabilities to grow in relative size, in one case outstripping the market capitalisation of its parent bank, a Citibank study has found. Lloyds Banking Group now has pension liabilities of 26.8 billion ...

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... folks, just a few more sleepless nights then perhaps we can all rest easy and enjoy the next ride up in the equity markets. Big Benny is due to speak at Jackson Hole in front of other central bankers on the 26th - yup, that's three days from now. Many ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
Australian shares were up at noon on the back of positive earning reports and takeover announcements, despite opening lower following a weak lead from Wall Street. At 1200 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 56.2 points, or 1.4 per ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... the rating agency Standard & Poor's." If the slow patch we've seen over the past few months were going to be "temporary" as Big Ben thought, it would no longer be if the financial markets continue to behave the way they do. Negative expectations have ...

ANZ shows increased profit and deposit growth

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... its release to the Australian Securities Exchange. Ratings agencies have voiced concern about the reliance of Australia's Big Four banks on raising capital from offshore wholesale debt markets. All four major banks face a possible one-notch ratings downgrade ...

Super funds need modern platforms to disclose holdings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
Superannuation funds worried about the cost of disclosing their portfolio holdings need to ditch their old legacy platforms, one of the world's biggest platform providers said yesterday. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) this ...

Planning practices will sell on earnings not revenue after opt-in

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... stream for a client. They therefore have to be valued on the same basis as other businesses: earnings multiples. "There's a big change in the financial planning businesses as they shift from valuations on a revenue basis to an earnings basis," Hunt said. ...

Customisable, original, scalable, networked: the next advice paradigm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... authors Joseph Duran, Joseph Michelli and Robert Doede argue that the consumer revolution we are now experiencing is just as big as the Industrial Revolution and its impact on financial services will be profound. "We are in the golden age of the consumer. ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... collateral in exchange for their contributions to the 109 billion euro ($A150.07 billion) rescue fund. "There was a pretty big sell-off in Europe over reignited fears about the sovereign debt situation there," Mr Jukes said. "But the big moves really ...