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Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... policy can't directly cause: more of the sort of 'animal spirits'... The Abbott government's flip-floppings on fiscal policy isn't helping to bring out the animals in businesses nor lifting consumer spirits.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... stocks. In addition a weak euro combined with low oil prices is stirring hopes that a sustained recovery for the eurozone isn't far off." Stock indices had rallied Friday on fresh signals that the European Central Bank will launch a bond-buying stimulus ...

Scale not what it used to be

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
The SelectingSuper awards shortlist for 2014 shows that scale isn't the factor it once was. The 2014 SelectingSuper awards are on again next week in Melbourne and an analysis of the shortlisted finalists shows that boutique and mid-sized funds make ...

APRA releases draft RSE fraud management guide

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... expected to follow. In it the regulator used a broad definition of fraud risk and covered internal and external factors that isn't restricted to financial factors. In a letter to RSEs, APRA Executive General Manager, Charles Littrell, wrote: "Draft SPG ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
"Having money isn't everything, not having it is." - Kanye West Nah Virginia, at my (middle) age, I'm not one who enjoys hip hop, techno, punk, goth or beats... let alone rap. But yankee-doodle-dandy rapper Kanye's words aptly describe the fall and ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... and found that about half the listed companies that we cover are in the middle of aggressive cost-cutting campaigns. This isn't about getting rid of chocolate biscuits from the kitchen, this is really fundamentally changing their business to try and ...

SelectingSuper fund award finalists announced

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... entrants into the awards reckoning this year being boutique super fund groups also reminds us being innovative and outperforming isn't just the preserve of the biggest most resourced funds either because what happens on the scoreboard is always more ...

Govt moves to repeal super payslip disclosure rules

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... - reporting an accrued amount of super on a payslip is like reporting a super IOU from your employer on your payslip - it isn't proof that the super has been paid."

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... overnight to a reading of 19.38 - the highest since February this year - before closing at a still high 18.76. But, but... but isn't this a good thing? Mama Janet Yellen wants it because "...low levels of volatility may induce risk-taking behavior that ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... expected if foreign economic growth came in weaker than anticipated". With the IMF's latest guesswork has confirmed that all isn't still well in the world, financial markets are resting easy that that "considerable time" before the Fed starts raising ...