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Santa Mario brings cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... Santa Mario on 3 December, daddy too. But before this, we'll hear the Fed's Janet Christmas offering - will she be naughty or nice? - after the FOMC's 27-28 October meeting. Nobody, not even a mouse, expects any major announcement though, not until closer ...

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... effects?" Seems the same observation has also dawned on Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota - nice to have company in high places. As reported by Dow Jones Business News, my new BFF Narayana, "...devoted part of his speech ...

China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... markdowns each (from its July projections) in Japan's GDP growth forecasts to 0.6% and 1.0% in 2015 and 2016, respectively. A nice seque into China's continued point scoring against Japan. Beijing dislodged Tokyo as the second biggest economy in the ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... premises. But the manager of the highly successful Magellan Global Fund is worried the sites he's been shown round are just too nice. Mark Smith finds out why. "There are not many ASX100 companies that would have an office like this. I'm terrified of ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... with people who were working in the same area as me. We had lecturers who were working in the markets, so that created a nice circle of wisdom and it meant we could bring to class real problems that we were facing at the time," Wills explains. His first ...

Regulation is not the only answer: Herbert Smith Freehills

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... but the case hasn't been made strongly enough for any of them." He said that introducing independence on boards would be "nice to happen, but it is not going to cause the collapse of the system if it doesn't.

Temporary trial separation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015

Australian market strong after miners' gains

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
The Australian share market has opened almost one per cent higher following a rebound by the big miners and a recovery on overseas markets. The miners on Friday were a major part of the push higher as iron ore prices jumped almost 10 per cent just a ...

FEATURE: Defending wealth

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... income" meet the "must-haves" of an investor's portfolio, while progressively riskier or growth-oriented assets complement the "nice-to-haves". "It's a safety-first, rather than probability-first, approach to retirement," Howes says. "It's about ordering ...

Marketing could double financial services revenue

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
Financial services companies with integrated sales and marketing teams can nearly double their chances of growing revenue, according to Peter Strohkorb Consulting International chief executive Peter Strohkorb. Speaking at the Financial Standard Marketing ...