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National clearing house shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... marketing at the group, said their system is different to traditional data hub oriented clearing houses. "In PaymentAdviser everything is virtual. All we do is facilitate the link and we don't charge the employers or the payroll for the service." This ...

Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... cannot be faulted of course. Gen X and Yers grew up in the land of abundance. Many have not experienced a recession. Everything that could be had was easy to be had. It had been 18 long years since Australia suffered a debilitating recession, and even ...

Groundhog Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... will never end. And this prognosis contributes as much to the current problems by creating a negative feedback loop on everything from consumers consuming to investors investing. But this too shall pass. The scale of the global financial crisis - and ...

The day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... trapped into the recession net. Yes we can! A fresh face in the White House could bring about fresh confidence that soon everything will be alright. Mr. Obama has put forward plans for an additional US$850 billion bail-out package even before he has ...

Aviva SMA gets adviser tick

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... what they'd be looking for, so we think we have a good handle from an adviser perspective," said Cobb. But timing is everything and to do it successfully they intend to start rolling out their SMA offering in the new financial year to "start with a clean ...

Right on target: Vanguard

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... funds that automatically adjusts equity allocation based on a pre-determined retirement age, were less likely to risk everything in the sharemarket or go in the opposite direction: avoid shares altogether. For example, those who did not invest in target-date ...

Aviva covers risky jobs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... illness is staggering. This is compelling because it can give parents, working or not, the financial support to drop everything to be by their child's side," she said.

New resources, fresh ads for advisers

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... savings, jobs, spending, and general confidence," said Jo-Anne Bloch, chief executive of the FPA. "Members can now find everything under the one roof through the FPA website so they can provide the most up to date information to clients," she said. At ...

Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... especially given the precedent-setting event of 4 November 2008, when the US elected its 44th president. But to think that everything will immediately be hunky dory is pure fantasy. The economic and financial systems need cleansing - cleansed of its ...

This too shall pass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... kick themselves, asking why they have not bought into the market at these levels. It might take time to improve, but everything will get better. Now only if we can have our brains sit tight.