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Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... And the little income that American consumers earn is being saved and not spent. Have money, will travel. Money fixes anything. This has been proven over the past year. Germany, France, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore are now out of recession. Australia ...

G-20 reasons to be hopeful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
A summit to have another summit. If anything, this was the consensus reached at the 4-5 September G-20 meeting in London whose finance ministers and central bankers continue to disagree to agree. But whereas the previous two meetings - November 2008 ...

Protection without commission: JB Global

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... to clients as an MER. "[This way] if the clients make money then we get a cut of that - but if the client doesn't make anything then we haven't made any value as an investment manager and we don't get any either," he said. Beeton recently launched a ...

Almost Per-fecta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... strong-fecta, this "projected" deficit could as easily turn into a "projected" surplus. That is, if our generation has learnt anything from the lessons of the GFC.

SMSFs miss Asian equities boom

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... sterling performance, if the meteoric 41.3 per cent rise in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index in the last eight months is anything to go by. Graeme Colley, superannuation strategy manager of ING Australia, said that while SMSF's general non-exposure to ...

Industrial espionage turns viral

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... looking email that has an attached word document or PDF. Your inbox shows up a real document onscreen so you don't suspect anything," said Hypponen. But before you know it, an executable file worms its way into your PC and "takes over your computer," ...

Add £50b, will travel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009

Intra-fund advice relief opens super funds to lawsuits

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... seriously been put to us to remove the section in our software that shows risk tolerance," he said. "The reason wasn't anything insidious. It was based on user feedback that the term "risk tolerance" is complicated and a marketer's response is to remove ...

Advisers put LPTs back on watchlist

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... Not surprisingly, planners scouting for investment opportunities to put forward to clients are still shying away from anything to do with high levels of gearing. Their appetite covers for strong, selective stocks - and prudent fund managers - that have ...

Communication breakdown advisers failure

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
... are pushed aside as rising cases of failed financial investments permeate through Australia's community. "If we've done anything wrong as a profession, as an industry, it's our failure to communicate effectively the value that we deliver," said Klipin ...