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Seniors are tech savvy: survey

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
Super funds may want to rethink how they communicate to older Australians after a survey found 96 per cent of those over the age of 50 own a mobile phone and a similar number use SMS. A National Seniors Australia survey of more than 2,700 Australians ...

Undue credit (ratings)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
When is a triple A rating not AAA? When the credit rating agencies say it is - in our case, Moody's. But first, a very big yawn with a matching upward stretch of both arms! I am talking about the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, of course. ...

Of population growth and surpluses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
Since we're still into discussions of the alphabet these days, did anyone notice Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan mention the 'S' word last week? It was during his address to formally launch the Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
The Australian sharemarket was nearly one per cent lower at noon with weakness in the financial sector and as some investors anticipate the "September effect". At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 44.1 cents, or 0.96 per cent, at 4552 ...

Priced, but not for a V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
There's no point in us lurking around Wall Street this month. All the good news has been priced in. Perhaps. Perhaps not. This may well be - as I've discussed yesterday - the curse of September at work, where the line of least resistance is to give ...

Lucky, lucky, lucky

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
Australians all let us rejoice! We should be so lucky. Lucky. Lucky. Lucky. For a teeny-weeny land that represents only around 2 per cent of the global economy, nobody expected that this "lucky country" would be this lucky. While the biggest economies ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
The gospel according to the US Federal Reserve: Economic activity -- "levelling out". Financial market conditions -- "improved further". Treasury buyback -- expiry extended another month to October (just in case). Fed funds rate - near zero for an extended ...

Intra-fund advice relief opens super funds to lawsuits

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
Super funds run the risk of giving their fund members damaging financial advice if they don't address the "hidden traps" that come with the new intra-fund advice rules, warns a planning expert. Last month the federal government endorsed ASIC's decision ...

ACSuper reviews investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Australian Christian Superannuation (ACSuper) is surveying its 4,300 members to gauge the appeal of an absolute returns strategy, and has placed less than a third of its total assets in an index fund while it's waiting for the survey outcome. David ...

Mercer's self employed advice strategy falls short

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
Mercer Wealth Solutions' strategy to sign self-employed financial planning practices has netted only two practices in a year, well short of the expected 12 practices flagged last year. Mercer Wealth Solutions launched its self-employed financial planning ...