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Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
It was another ho-hum day on Wall Street last night. Nothing much was expected, nothing much transpired. US stocks ended flat in light trading activity as the bond market and government offices closed in celebration of the day Christopher Columbus came ...

Tower wins Virgin Money mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
One year after Tower Australia secured a $600 million insurance deal with AustralianSuper, the firm has signed on a major partnership with Virgin Money to provide life insurance to the retail market. Richard Branson-backed Virgin Money is expanding ...

Advisers told to bring in the romance

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
Everyone is talking about fee-for-service advice and how adviser and their clients will respond when it comes to crunch time, but apparently, a successful adviser-client relationship is all about the romance. Steve Pink from pHuel, a motivational business ...

One report, two spins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
"One country, two systems." The first time we heard this phrase was when Britain's 99-year lease of Hong Kong expired on 1 July 1997. Bloomberg reiterated a slightly different version of this phrase last night. "One report, two spins." One report. US ...

NGS Super takes fresh route to tap EM

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
Speaking at the Rainmaker Marketing Symposium yesterday on how super funds and fund managers can collaborate more on investments, one super fund suggested the idea of creating tailored resources mandates. Anthony Rodwell-Ball, chief executive officer ...

Nightmare on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
Yep, the scare is on! Expect nothing less - it's Friday the 13th anyway. Jason and Freddie Kruger are out to induce a nightmare on Wall Street. But wait, it wasn't Jason, nor was it Freddie - it was the US initial "weekly" unemployment insurance claims ...

Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
Double-dip here we come! Yes Virginia, we're on our way back to the abyss. This, if you believe the talking heads and the written words on the financial media after the latest update on US employment hit trading screens last Friday night. The numbers. ...

Inflation no show

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
RBA no go. This is the financial markets' collective verdict following yesterday's surprisingly lower-than-expected Australian inflation figures. I don't know about you but is central banking and monetary policy really as simple as this? I remember ...

Should super go social?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
Social media expert Kim Anderson, formerly from ninemsn and now founder of www.readingroom.com.au, said the benefits of social media are real and the more super fund communication professionals take the trend seriously, the better off they will be. ...

New-found optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." Maya Angelou Asia is up, Europe is up, Wall Street is up... for three days straight. But what has changed? Nothing really except for investors and speculators getting ...