Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 5481 - 5490 of 9566 results for "Next"

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... good considering the underlying economy. "There's a bit of a query about whether we might see some deterioration over the next two or three months." The major resource stocks started the day mixed with BHP up 12 cents at $38.44, and Fortescue up one ...

Integrate next-gen insurance policies into NDIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
Life insurance isn't yet seen as part of the national public policy framework for solving Australia's disability and healthcare challenges but maybe it should be. That was the question posed by FSC chief economist James Bond to a panel of insurance ...

Financial services export industry must rival iron ore

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
Australia needs to significantly grow its financial services export industry over the next decade to ensure future employment and economic growth, chairman of the Financial Services Council Greg Cooper said in his opening address to delegates at the ...

Clients prefer good reputation, knowledge over low fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... aware of clients' preferences, with 81.1% saying they expect growth to come from recommendations from happy clients in the next 12 months. There is also a large minority of financial advisers who plan to move out of traditional markets and target entirely ...

Fortnum ready to recruit advisers after ANZ stake buyout

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... number of advisers are agitating to break-away from institutional control and influence, which will only intensify over the next few years. Chief operating officer and head of finance Ian White said: "We believe Fortnum's open and transparent model will ...

Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... half right to be fully correct. I was so wrong in thinking that the growing tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan as the next big 'crisis' to watch out for but I was bloody right that it would be Vlad that could trigger another dip on Wall Street. ...

RBA leaves interest rates on hold

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... stability is already quite lengthy," he said." "In our forecasts we have them starting to nudge interest rates up from February next year." In the statement, Mr Stevens cited concerns about the declines in resource sector investment. Mr Blythe said there ...

Treasury Group shares surge on merger news

LAURA MILLAN AND AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... products to wider markets. "The merger executes on key elements of our strategy... and leaves us ideally positioned for our next phase of growth across international markets," McGill said in a statement. Treasury Group will receive a 61% economic interest ...

NGS launches income-focused retirement product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... Anthony Rodwell-Ball said the product was developed in response to a "huge demographic shift." "NGS Super estimates that in the next decade, around half of our funds under management will belong to members in the drawdown phase. And as baby boomers start ...

AIST slams Xenophon's super home loan proposal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... chief executive Tom Garcia. Xenophon has said he will introduce legislative changes to the Superannuation Act 1976 in the next session of Parliament that will allow first home buyers to use their super to buy a first home, a policy modelled on Canada's ...