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IFAs to benefit from budget

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
The 2015 budget's $5.5 billion jobs and small business package will benefit independent financial advice businesses, according to industry commentators. The package includes a 1.5% tax cut for all small business (incorporated or not), a 5% tax discount ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... 7 billion euros to the European Central Bank. HONG KONG - Asian markets closed mostly higher on Monday after a healthy US jobs report last week. Investor sentiment was also boosted by China's decision to cut interest rates for the third time in six months. ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... government appears to have turned Keynesian. According to reports, savings derived from tomorrow's Budget would be used to fund jobs creation and stimulate economic growth - a turnaround from last year's aimed of them going into reducing the debt and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... Wall Street stocks surged more than one per cent on Friday after new data showed that the US economy added a solid 223,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate fell to a seven-year low of 5.4 per cent. Locally on Monday, the National Austraia Bank ...

Midwinter unveils digital advice platform

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... themselves. "People were scared about online broking, too. And online broking in the intermediary space has created so many jobs for advisers because they have now got access directly to the market to be able to expand their service offering without ...

Next stop: US payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... Securities in New York). However, it seems that current market thinking is for a lift-off this year. A stronger-than-expected jobs number would put June back on the table. Weaker-than-expectations and it would be September. Not so, according to the handful ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... index futures contract was down 24 points at 5,631. Wall Street fell for a second straight session following disappointing jobs data and a warning from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on high equity valuations. Locally on Thursday, official jobs figures ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... 2.3 per cent during the March quarter while comparable sales were up just 0.7 per cent. The retail giant is also axing 400 jobs in a bid to save $500 million in costs. Internet provider iiNet recommended that shareholders accept a takeover bid from TPG ...

Robo advice questions still unanswered

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... than 50% year on year in UK. Financial Planning Association chief executive, Mark Rantall, said ironically one of his first jobs at Godfrey Pembroke in 2004 was to shut down YourProsperity, a company doing robo advice for MLC. "But everything has its ...

Will nice numbers make RBA a bad guy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... than reversed the previous month's 1.3% fall and quickening the annual pace from 6.6% in March to 7.3%. And we all know what jobs do - people with jobs are more confident about spending more. This, in turn, makes businesses happier as their sales and ...