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Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
"ATHENS - After nearly two weeks of tense negotiations, Greece and its troika of foreign creditors said Monday that they had clinched an agreement on economic measures that Athens must enforce to secure the release of further crucial rescue money." ...

Law firm targets disgruntled advice clients using Twitter

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... quality of financial advice you've received? Do something about it," Slater and Gordon said on a sponsored tweet sent this week from its official Twitter handle. Sponsored messages on Twitter are not only viewed by the account's followers (over 5,000 ...

Stella Network ramps up support for women in financial planning

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
A networking group set up to support women in financial planning celebrated its one-year birthday this week with a string of good news for its members and supporters. On Wednesday night, the legendary Joan Sutherland Studio of the Opera Australia in ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... and banks enjoy gains. Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton are higher after encouraging quarterly production reports earlier this week, while energy stocks benefitted from improvements in crude oil prices. Traders are also optimistic the European Central Bank ...

AMP's Hillross crowns best advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... firm Hillross has handed out its Adviser of the Year, New Adviser of the Year and Firm of the Year awards at a ceremony this week. Sydney planner David Kennedy was crowned Adviser of the Year for his ability to "set meaningful goals, focus only on the ...

Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... sand it drew way back in September 2011 and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lower its key interest rates last week. This week opened with the Danmarks Nationalbank - Denmark's central bank - surprise announcement of a 15bps reduction in its deposit rate ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... Peregrine & Black. "Increasing optimism that the ECB will finally announce QE (stimulus) during their monthly meeting later this week is continuing to drive investors into stocks. In addition a weak euro combined with low oil prices is stirring hopes ...

Assistant Treasurer Sinodinos resigns

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014
... subject to any finding of corrupt conduct or illegality," he said. Senator Sinodinos informed Prime Minister Tony Abbott this week that the ICAC proceedings involving Senator Sinodinos have been delayed until March or beyond. They'd both agreed it was ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... AA. Not only this, there's speculation that the Politburo would dictate a "new normal" 2015 growth target of 7.0% at this week's China's annual "Central Economic Work Conference". This is not good news for Australia. Not good at all, especially with ...

Investors blind to arbitrage opportunity in emerging market debt

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... have compounded the issue. But according to emerging market specialist Marber, who is based in the US but in Australia this week to meet with institutional investors, emerging market economies present an arbitrage opportunity for investors. "Credit opportunities ...