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Anticipatory and moderate adjustments had become necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
Li gets what Li likes. Yes Virginia, I've typed this phrase so many, many, many times -- changed from 'Wen gets what Wen wants when Wen wants it' when Li Kequiang took over China's premiership from Wen Jiabao on 13 March 2013 -- on this space before. ...

Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014

Super returns dip but still strong

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
The SelectingSuper MySuper and Workplace rolling 12 month performance index fell during July to return 10.6% compared to 12.7% at end June and 11.7% at end May. Rainmaker, which conducts the research for SelectingSuper, noted that three year super fund ...

Actuaries Institute to advise FSI on longevity

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
The Financial System Inquiry has enlisted the Actuaries Institute to advise it on possible product solutions that deal with the challenge of longevity. In its submission to the FSI, released today, the Actuaries Institute states: "The Institute is assisting ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
Raise your hands all ye who thinks that their economy is growing above and beyond potential, that there's no slack in their nations' respective labour markets or that their labour force is not "under-utilised", and that it's time... to normalise interest ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Toto, I've a feeling we're back in Goldilocksville. Now that the headlines have grown tired of counting and recounting of lives lost - and collateral damages - the US/EU-Russia tits-for-tats, the "humanitarian" trucks toing and froing through the Ukrainian ...

Consumer awareness of vertical integration plummets

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
The number of consumers unaware that their financial adviser works for a dealer group aligned with the big institutions has significantly increased over the past year. In 2013, 51% of the clients using Commonwealth Bank-owned Financial Wisdom thought ...

Claims against advice arm have no factual basis: Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
Macquarie Group has denied recent media reports claiming its advisers cheated on competency tests and exposed clients to high-risk investments, saying that it would refer the matter to the Australian Press Council (APC). In a statement on its website ...

Yellen yawn turn to Yellen yikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
It was to be a non-event. Financial markets didn't expect the head of the world's biggest and mightiest central bank to deviate much - if at all - from her rhetoric of days gone by - when she delivers her semi-annual testimony on US monetary policy ...

Standard Life Investment property specialist joins Neuberger Berman

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
Investment manager Neuberger Berman has appointed former Standard Life Investment's executive Anton Kwang as a senior portfolio manager for the Asia Pacific region. To be based in Hong Kong, Kwang's appointment marks an expansion of the company's global ...