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Market down on Ukraine unrest

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
The Australian share market has opened weaker as a geopolitical crisis in the Ukraine escalates. The Ukraine is on the brink of war with Russia threatening to invade in a crisis that began three months ago with civilian protests against the government ...

PROFILE: Centric Wealth CEO Phil Kearns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Ex-Wallaby captain and chief executive ofA Centric Wealth Phil Kearns tells JamesA Fernyhough that there are more similarities between rugby and financial advice than first meet the eye. For a future Wallabies captain, Phil Kearns' rugby career did ...

G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
The week that was looked exactly like the week before that was. Yes Virginia, financial market sentiment remains upbeat for what is good is good and what is bad, what is disappointing, what is negative is "likely affected by the weather". Blame the ...

Van Eyk expands research team

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
Van Eyk Research's head of manager research Rob da Silva has continued to build his team since joining the company in late 2013, adding three analysts to its manager research team that services financial advisers. Murray Asken has joined van Eyk from ...

Gen Ys engaged with life insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
Young Australians appear to be engaged with the importance of insurance, as new research reveals that with 48% of GenYs do not use outside influences when making a decision about their life insurance policy. A TAL survey found that 39% of Australians ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street markets as investors shrugged off a report showing poor industrial output in January as mainly weather-related. At 0747 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures ...

US Congress votes to raise debt ceiling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
Both houses of the US Congress have passed a bill to increase the US debt ceiling, with no additional debt ceiling increases expected to be needed until 2015. It was passed first in the House of Representatives 221 to 201 after an estimated 30 Republicans ...

Oh what a feelin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
You, I and Irene can bury our collective heads in the sand but we can't escape Toyota's announcement that it would tailgate Ford and then Holden out of Australia and then... Australia's car manufacturing industry would be no more when 2017 turns into ...

More Australians opt for advice through super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
Superannuation funds, and industry funds in particular, are on track to becoming the favoured channel for consumers seeking financial advice, according to a new survey by Investment Trends. The Investment Trends September 2013 Advice Report found that ...

IOOF adapts distribution team for post-FoFA world

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
IOOF is the last of a number of organisations to restructure its distribution team in order to adapt to a post-Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) environment. IOOF will hire a head of Specialist Sales responsible for investment, self-managed, and tax ...