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FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
With the deadline now closed for submissions to the Financial System Inquiry, the first investigation into the sector in 16 years, Financial Standard investigates the big themes, the surprises and what has been missed amongst the more than 250 publicly ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... performance we've had for many a day," Mr Heffernan said. Heffernan said the overseas interest in David Jones had come as a surprise and the positive vibe had spilled over to other retail stocks. In the retail sector, Myer was 11.5 cents, or five per ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
Apart from last-minute end-of-month and end-of-quarter window dressings, this first day of the trading week should offer few surprises. It'll be a week when financial markets play the waiting game. Investors' attention would be on what the Reserve Bank ...

Industry funds spend millions on advertising

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... advertise at all. One critic suggested that industry funds were "dipping into members' accounts". Another reader expressed surprise that industry funds could raise that sort of money when their member administration fees were so low. But it does appear ...

Get set for FICAP's 'Who wants to be a RockStar' tonight

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... from ANZ returning to defend his crown. We also have some great new talent set to blow us away on the night, plus some surprise performances. It's shaping up to be a sensational night." The performers on the night: Representing FICAP's platinum sponsors ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
What's she done now? All this commotion... and just at her first ever meeting chairing the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The S&P 500 index fell by as much as 1.2% and yields on 10-year US Treasuries spiked by as much as 12 basis points overnight ...

Super social media yet to excite members

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... are less influential than most bloggers: "Only two super fund groups have more than 2000 Twitter followers." Another surprise result from the survey is that while not-for-profit funds are the most active groups talking about social media it is the retail ...

Pickle wrapped in a bind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
The verdict is in, Crimeans have decided... what now? Surprise of surprises Virginia! Exit polls following Sunday's Crimean referendum showed that 93% of voters voted to secede from Ukraine and return to Russia with love. Ukraine's new government, Europe ...

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... better-than-expected growth in Spanish retail sales; Indian inflation easing for the third straight month in February and a surprise uptick in January industrial production. Not to mention, New Zealand. Its economy is gaining such momentum that the RBNZ ...

Industry overestimates amount needed for retirement

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... vocal advocates of this message in the Australian market. Back in January the industry body seized the opportunity of a surprise rise in inflation to make the point again. "Research continues to indicate that many Australians will retire without enough ...