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Taxing times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
It's beginning to look a lot like the Grinch will steal Christmas 2017 and investors would be happy just to get the two-front teeth in their hanged stockings. That's the feeling many an investor would get upon the reading the nasty news, exemplified ...

Former NAB risk committee chair joins Wingate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... Bluescope Stel and IBM Australia. Rizzo said: "Wingate's senior executives are deeply knowledgeable and professional, with a nice blend of wanting growth and high returns, but doing so in a diligent and deliberate way." "This role as chairman of the ...

Two holds and a raise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
... September, core at 2.7% - dictates that it should proceed with interest rate increases more aggressively than the Fed. It would be nice if the BOE could return to normality early... but there's still the protracted period of uncertainty over the Brexit ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
Love him or loathe him, Donald Trump remains the stuff of headlines going into and since he won the 8 November 2016 US presidential election. Reports abound about Trump versus Kim, Trump versus NATO, Trump versus the NFL, Trump versus Alec Baldwin and ...

Life insurers challenged by waning planner loyalty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
Almost half of all financial planners cut ties with at least one life insurer in the last 12 months and a further 27% intend to follow suit. Investment Trends' annual Planner Risk report for 2017 shows a record 47% of planners changed life insurer last ...

Transparency to the max

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
Oh drat! There were few events last week to provide a nice entry point to equity markets, ones that could instil caution, if not fear, enough for some to trim their holdings and cheapen share prices. But alas! Most share markets closed stronger. These ...

Wall Street interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... still is as it was... hreats ("gift packages to the US") and counter-threats (sanctions) which, on every occasion presented nice buying opportunities. Too, the damage bill from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma's turning out to be not as much as expected. CNN ...

Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... Financial markets are right to not be alarmed for we've seen this scary movie one too many times before. It even provided a nice buying opportunity. Thanks Kim. More so, given that the citizens of South Korea - the most immediate casualty of an all-out ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... by the acceleration in the annual growth rate of the ANZ job ads series to 12.8% in July from 10.5% in the previous month. Nice. But while these suggest strengthening growth momentum in the Australian economy, going forward inflation indicators are heading ...

Pressure on advice practices means time for rethink: ClearView

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... need for strategic advice. "In the past, advice has been transactional and product-focused in nature however there isn't a nice neat product solution for advice on property investing, debt management or aged care. Strategic advice is the solution," Dummett ...