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Banks eye Google Glass as tech opportunity

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
Westpac is developing a Google Glass application that will allow users to access bank accounts, make fund transfers or locate nearby ATM machines. The bank announced this week that it is currently developing an application for Google Glass, which is ...

BRICs without BRI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
The timing may be varied - as early as 2027 and not until 2050 - but there was almost universal consensus that their grouping would eventually supplant the Group of 7 (G7) as the richest countries in the world. You guessed it Virginia, these are the ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
Down on Putin one day, up the next. Down on Yellen one day, up the next. Financial reports now talk of investors re-assessing their thinking of what they thought they understood US Federal Reserve Chair (in this politically correct age) Janet Yellen ...

Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
My, my... Crimea has just put a new twist in the turn of the Russia/Ukraine saga. Crimea's Parliament voted - unanimously if I may add - to secede from Ukraine and re-join Russia (which it was part of it till 1954). The Crimeans will get their say in ...

Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... Fell free to form your own conclusions. I digress. While financial markets (and the G7 plus China) would be keeping a close eye on Putin from hereon - just in case - there's no denying that the flow of statistics have been largely on the positive side ...

PROFILE: Centric Wealth CEO Phil Kearns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... Phil Kearns tells JamesA Fernyhough that there are more similarities between rugby and financial advice than first meet the eye. For a future Wallabies captain, Phil Kearns' rugby career did not have the auspicious start you might expect. As a schoolboy ...

S&P DJI eyes aligned advice groups with new role

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
S&P Dow Jones Indices (SPDJI) is recruiting for a role as part of a move to tap into the aligned financial advice dealer groups with its exchange-traded fund (ETF) indices. Until now the bank-aligned advice sector has proved difficult for ETF providers ...

Sinodinos rules out LRBA review for SMSFs

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... Speaking at SPAA, Senator Sinodinos reaffirmed his commitment to a "light-touch regulatory regime" for SMSFs. "I am keeping an eye on the sector. But we are not seeking to come in with heavy handed regulation, people need to be appropriately licensed ...

Matrix to focus on attracting aligned advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... of Di Cristoforo's responsibilities and head of advice Tanya Seale will report to him. Franzen himself will be keeping an eye on the funds management side of the business on behalf of the board. Di Cristoforo will be in his role until February 21 and ...

Subjected to interpretation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... to 51.3 in January when they were expecting only a slight dip to 56.0 from December's 56.5 reading. Markets turned a blind eye on the fact that the index remained above 50 - the line that separates expansion from contraction - in January and therefore ...