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Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
Hold that turkey! Put that cork back into the champagne bottle! Thanksgiving has been hijacked! If you don't standstill, we sink. Dubai World reportedly intends to ask its creditors to "standstill" and extend maturities of its about US$59 billion debt ...

L-U-V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... variety'. LUV stands for the path of global economic growth. Just last week the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) more than doubled its 2010 forecast for its 30-member nations. Log on to the OECD website. Look at the 'Key regional ...

FPA calls for whistleblowers and more planner education

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... planners they had suspicions about. We wanted to make this process as accessible and efficient as possible. In a separate development, Bloch also announced a raft of new education expectations for the association's members. "The education standards of ...

Synchron adds consultant after growth

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
Synchron has hit the 150-financial-adviser mark and hired a practice development consultant. The financial advice group appointed Neil McKay as practice development consultant. McKay is a financial adviser who has also acted as a risk insurance consultant ...

Bookmakers fund closer to liquidity resolution

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
... include a block of three nearly completed luxury houses in Rose Bay, a partially complete office block in Pymble, and a development of 30 building blocks of land in Port Douglas. BSF said in a statement that it expects the property-related issues to ...

AMP extends Super Easy to employer market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
... and as they move through life," said Andrew Hobern, director of wealth management products at AMP. This follows the development of Flexible Lifetime Super Easy in April this year. At the launch, Hobern said the easy-to-use superannuation product was ...

Ganging up on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
What's it going to be? A strong dollar or a weak dollar policy? The short answer a strong dollar in words, a weak one in deed. Yesterday, I wrote about Uncle Timmy Geithner telling Asia that, "It's very important to the United States, to the economic ...

No transparency, no mandates: ARIA

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... strategic conversation, investing in resources necessary to support greater risk management, embedding risk inside the development of the fund's culture and building relationships, particularly with external parties, that respect its need for a "granular ...

ING improves OneAnswer platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... investors," said Mark Pankhurst, head of retail platforms and employer super at ING Australia on the 2009 OneAnswer development program. "The Centrelink schedules and Capital Gains Tax calculator for example, have been in high demand from advisers from ...

T. Rowe Price expands India footprint

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... processes. "We anticipate significant synergies over time with T. Rowe Price in fund management, research, product development and technology and look forward to offering sophisticated products and services to our investors," Sinha said in a statement. ...