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BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... discretionary spending. Worse, Americans were only enticed to spend because of, according to Bloomberg, "Bigger back-to-school discounts, an increase in the number of states offering tax-free holidays and the restoration of extended jobless benefits..." ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... executive John Borghetti is set to speak at a Financial Services Council luncheon in Sydney. Harvard University Business School Professor Robert Kaplan is scheduled to address a Committee for Economic Development of Australia function on performance ...

AMP buys $80m social infra fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
AMP Capital Investors has announced the acquisition of the RBS Social Infrastructure Trust, an Australian public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure fund with an $80 million portfolio of assets. The fund will be renamed the AMP Capital Community ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... cent on average in Septembers. Also, the Wall Street Journal cites finance professor Kenneth French at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business study showing that since 1926, September is "the only month with a negative average return. For each of the other ...

NGS Super considers Shariah-compliant option

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
NGS Super is looking to launch a Shariah-compliant investment option based on the feedback from the Islamic members of the fund. Chief executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball told the audience at yesterday's Rainmaker Marketing Symposium that the fund is working ...

Hung

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
By now many of you, fellow Australians, would have had enough of the commentaries, in-depth analyses, finger-pointing, spins, recriminations, soul searching, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera that preceded and followed last Saturday's Australian elections. ...

Govt to ramp up FinLit in national school curriculum

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... Government will invest $10 million into financial literacy curriculum projects, including its integration into the national school curriculum supplemented by teacher training by ASIC. Financial literacy is already well established in current school curriculum ...

Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... is typically the slowest month of the third quarter for retailers as they clear out summer merchandise for the back- to-school season, the second-largest sales period after the year-end holidays." Burn its left eyeballs! Next. US consumer prices rose ...

Aussie planners should turn to Asia: Hockey

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... opportunity in your profession as growth into Asia." He pegged financial advice in many parts of Asia as "cumbersome, old school, [and] not necessarily independent at all". "It is rather rudimentary," he said. Australia's close proximity to Asia is key ...

Should super go social?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... Telstra State of the Nation Report, more than 70 per cent of Australian mums are on Facebook, with the average age of a school mum at 40-plus.