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'tis the season to not be jolly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
Thank goodness Australia doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving Day - there won't be anything to give thanks for when it comes around next week. While we're at it, Santa Claus may not be coming to town either. I'm not in a "Grinchy" mood today, it's just the ...

Financial services industry welcomes 'Yes' result

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... all employees should have the opportunity to perform to the best of their potential - and that this happens when "employees feel comfortable and equal in their workplace and their lives." Australia is now poised to join over 20 other countries that have ...

Australian business conditions gone gangbusters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... business conditions are the best they have been in two decades. I don't think many would disagree that it certainly doesn't feel like it. More so, given that the business confidence reading hardly budged and remained unchanged at +8 in October from the ...

Taxing times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
It's beginning to look a lot like the Grinch will steal Christmas 2017 and investors would be happy just to get the two-front teeth in their hanged stockings. That's the feeling many an investor would get upon the reading the nasty news, exemplified ...

The BOJ's boring Halloween

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... consumption tax) and 2.3% including the impact of the lifting of the consumption tax from 8% to 10% on October 2019. All good but I feel that there's a trick here somewhere. The fine print in the BOJ's 'Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices (October ...

Wills should be reviewed, not refuted: EQT

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
Financial advisers must ensure clients' estate plans are being regularly reviewed to avoid the potential diminishment of assets as a result of costly family drama when they're gone, Equity Trustees said. The asset management and estate planning experts ...

MLC Life enriches health and wellbeing program

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... advised insurance, Melissa Heyhoe said. "The focus of the program is good health and wellbeing which influences not just how we feel, but how we go about our everyday lives. We've now made it easier for customers to join and be successful in the program ...

Millennials shaping family office strategy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... global family office APAC, Anurag Mahesh, is motivated by the need to satisfy the mindset of the younger generation, who both feel accountable for global issues and are significantly more likely to say they can influence social equality, the environment ...

Mindfulness coach recognised for excellence in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
A financial adviser with a unique business model incorporating the practice of yoga took home the 2017 Female Excellence in Advice Award. Presented at the Association of Financial Advisers' National Adviser Conference on the Gold Coast last week, Wellthy ...

Advisers can transform tragedy

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... become easier. "People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. People will never forget how you made them feel," she said. Florian adds it is important to remind someone experiencing such a tragedy that their future is not totally ...