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When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Pick your poison. There's a "Murphy's Law" event for every bear to choose from to shatter all hopes, prayers and wishes. Thanksgiving? No, thanks! As Mr. Murphy famously said, "If something can go wrong, it will!" It sure the heck did over the past ...

Tasmanian former adviser charged for no AFSL

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
John Vafiadis, previously of Hobart, has been charged for running an advice business without an Australian Financial Services license. Vafiadis appeared in the Hobart Magistrates' Court charged with two counts of carrying on a financial services business ...

Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
Blame it on the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday in America. Financial markets are running around like headless Turkeys trying to find the nearest exit away from the oven. There was heavy selling on Wall Street overnight and then... buy backs. At lot of ...

Zurich eyes platforms for growth

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
Macquarie, BT and AXA are some of the platform providers Zurich Financial Services will be targeting next year as the firm shifts its strategy from launching new products, to increasing its presence in the platform sector. Matthew Drennan, general manager ...

M&A activity to decline: report

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
An Ernst & Young report concludes that many global and Australian financial services firms prefer organic growth, with cautious attitudes held towards major acquisitions. The third Ernst & Young capital confidence barometer found that while capital ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
What's seemingly wrong at the beginning of last week became whole again - maybe - by the close. Fears that China would impose measures to extract excess liquidity to bring down inflation came to pass - fears passed, Beijing passed tightening measures. ...

Awakening from summer slumber

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
Everything's turning up daisies one more time. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Hate to say this but... didn't I tell you it would? That the Irish problem, like Greece's and Dubai's, would go away - or at least relegated till the next European debt scare when financial ...

When Irish eyes are frowning

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
Local fixed interest managers are positioning their portfolios carefully to avoid the Irish fiscal hangover and to exploit opportunities. The European sovereign debt crisis, which has been bubbling under the surface for months now, has resurfaced and ...

Median Australian shares fund down: Mercer

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Australian shares have rallied in October after a strong September lead but the median result for Australian share funds were slightly worse than the market, the latest Mercer Survey shows. The median of the Mercer Australian Shares survey for the year ...

APRA cautions against cloud computing

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has expressed its concern of the use of cloud computing in the financial services industry. In a letter written to the industry, APRA clearly advises all deposit-taking institutions (ADIs), general ...