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TAL veterans launch new life insurance provider

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
A group of former TAL executives have launched a new distributor of life insurance products backed by a global reinsurer. NEOS Life aims to distribute through the financial adviser market and offers life, total and permanent disability, critical illness ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
Quitaly and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's exit and the curious case of the US-North Korea summit have drowned China's modern version of the "Great Leap Forward". The first day of June marked when MSCI included Chinese A-shares into ...

Funds SA fills two senior investment roles

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
A $30 billion public sector fund manager has made two appointments in senior investment roles. Matthew Kempton joined Funds SA in February as director, equities. He left his role as chief investment officer at ESSSuper, where he worked from 2013 until ...

ASIC accepts EU from Perth advice firm

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... enforceable undertaking from a Perth financial advice firm. The regulator expressed concerns about compliance management at Neo Financial Solutions and has requested the group engage with an independent expert to assess these issues. Specifically, ASIC ...

Investment under microscope at ASFA conference

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
Superannuation funds need to look ahead of meeting benchmarks, peers and league tables and be more dynamic in achieving investment goals. This will be one of the key themes coming from the 2015 Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) ...

ASIC bans ex-Genesys adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... their adviser will provide appropriate advice," said ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell. Up until his banning, Zelka worked for NEO Financial Solutions. Another NEO adviser, Alfie Chong, who formerly with NAB-aligned Meritum Financial Group, was also banned ...

Liberalise economy or prepare for war, warns economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... he said the chances of such "structural reforms" going ahead are zero, and therefore predicted social unrest, the rise of neo-fascism, and the escalation of geopolitical conflicts. "For people who shrug off geopolitical conflict, that's okay," he said ...

Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... "westerners" finally cottoned on that China is not a democracy - and so, its economy does not function according to classical or neo-classical economic dynamics - but a command economy - the politburo commands, the economy asked "do you want fries with ...

Bears out a-haunting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
Shutdown: Day 8 and counting and... 9 days to go before the US debt hit the ceiling. Yes Virginia, those adult politicos in Washington are still at it...playing their game of chickens. Both sides are waiting for the other to blink. You know what happens ...

So stupid it could actually make money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
"The time is right, your perfume fills my head, the stars get red and, oh, the night's so blue And then I go and spoil it all by announcing saying something stupid like "we'll tax you I love you"." My apologies for messing up your immortal classic Frank ...