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Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
It's all quiet on the Wall Street front overnight. The US quarterly company earnings reporting season must be about to commence. Just in case. Trading volume was low and bereft of direction. The Dow was up 0.01 per cent and the S&P 500 was down 0.3 ...

SG needed to save retirees: Shorten

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... Shorten and launched its own push for the super increase on the first day of the conference with a new website and FaceBook page. Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of AIST told more than a thousand delegates at the opening speech that the industry must ...

Fund manager takes social media to next level

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... incorporated social media into its daily dealings with both its investors and potential clients. Using a Facebook-like interactive page, NakedFunds uses online capabilities to survey, poll, answer questions and discuss investments decisions with any ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Oil is the word, is the word, is the word. Yup there's no turning the pages of the political, economic and financial news without seeing the letters O-I-L these days. And all because of "Queen" Qaddafi's (UK's The Telegraph reported that he "pleaded ...

Henderson Maxwell launches DIY planning guide

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... not giving away planning business as it is for a different market. In Financial Planning DIY Guide, Henderson creates a one-page financial plan that provides all of the information he said is needed to create a comprehensive and actionable financial ...

Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
"There's a kind of hush (rush) all over the world tonight... So listen very carefully, closer now and you will see what I mean. It isn't a dream..." --Carpenters Just like Italy's Emperor (Silvio Berlusconi) was allegedly photographed with showgirls ...

ACFS names award finalists

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... Gala Dinner of the Melbourne Financial Services Symposium (MFSS). For more information on the awards and the ACFS, go to page 21 of the latest newspaper edition of Financial Standard, out today.

Platforms climb back from GFC to $399bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... found that the number of advisers over the past five years has increased 3 per cent per annum to reach 18,745. Christopher Page, Rainmaker managing director, said at this rate by 2050 Australia will have 61,000 advisers or one adviser for every 656 Australians. ...

Lift NZ retirement age to 67

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... making gradual change now, as the longer we leave it, the more it will hurt when it has to change," he said on his Facebook page. NZ's current account deficit is now 2 per cent, falling from a high of 8 per cent at the height of the GFC. Unemployment ...

BT Wrap releases plain English investor guide

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... based on a cross-section of advisers' hand drawn examples. "Our research showed investors just don't engage with bulky 70+ page disclosure documents and want clear and simple language," said Chris Freeman, head of BT Wrap, adding that advisers also want ...