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Japan did it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... horses and printing presses - still could not put Humpty back together again. For again, Japan is officially back in technical recession - real GDP contracted by 0.4% in the third quarter that followed a 1.9% fall in the second - it's fourth in six years. ...

Global dividends reach record high

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... Global Investors. According to the report, an apparent sharp fall in dividends from Australia merely reflects a number of technical factors, including the restructuring of the Westfield group, and because Westpac did not repeat a big special dividend ...

ClearView names CEO and exec team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... ensure effective delivery of high quality advice to clients of our advice businesses. Todd brings the necessary depth of technical expertise, strategic thinking and leadership capability required to make the ClearView advice businesses a success." UnderA ...

AMP to enter Chinese pension market

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... the first foreign company to take a stake in a Chinese pension company. Part of the deal will involve AMP providing technical support to the pension company. China Life Pension Company is majority owned by China Life Insurance Company Limited, China's ...

SMSFs up weighting to international shares

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... in SMSFs reached 18.29%, the lowest level since the quarterly survey began in 2007. AMP SMSF administration head of technical services Philip La Greca said the significant decrease in cash holdings has mainly flowed into international, property and equity ...

Funding for the government's adviser register unclear

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... excellent initiative for consumers." However, she added that advisers' competency should not only be measured by their technical knowledge: "skills such as being able to build trust with clients can't be measured. We are the person that clients call ...

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 ...

BT grows life insurance team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... development team operating across the IFA, aligned and bank adviser channels. Meanwhile, Rachel Leong has joined BT as product technical manager, life insurance. Leong was previously technical strategy manager at Suncorp subsidiary Asteron Life. Head ...

AFA presents Excellence in Education award

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... his commitment to excellence in behaviour, attitude, knowledge and accountability. "We know that increasing both the technical and practical education of advisers is vital to improving consumer confidence in our profession. Peter has demonstrated his ...

PROFILE: AMP SMSF managing director Natasha Fenech

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... Royal and Sun Alliance as an actuarial analyst, a role she describes as being "somewhere between the business and the technical actuarial element." She soon decided to strengthen her business profile and took some time off work in 2002 to study a masters ...