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Value of internet search for stock markets revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
New research from RMIT has found that suppressing internet searches creates stock market instability. The research reviewed the impact on stock markets of Google's decision in 2010 to unexpectedly withdraw its search business from China. It found that ...

Executive pay structure still fuels risk-taking: APRA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... the number of RSE's analysed was small and any conclusions must be drawn with caution, APRA said. "If incentives are the carrot used by companies to boost staff performance, accountability mechanisms are the stick...However, the perception in the community ...

Turning lazy cash into super savings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
An Australian fintech is giving financial advisers another tool through which to help clients grow their superannuation balances. Much like Acorns, automated micro-savings app Carrott rounds everyday transactions made on credit or debit cards up to ...

Australian elections just gave uncertainty a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
... another hung parliament... when nothing gets done. What now happens to the "jobs and growth" the Coalition's centrepiece carrot? And oh, lower company taxes? What now happens to the ALP's public health and education promise? The victories of "independents" ...

Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... and avert "systemic risks", after major indices plunged more than 8 percent in the biggest one-day fall since 2007". The carrot. The securities regulator also said market authorities would deal severely with anyone engaged in the "malicious shorting ...

CBA dangles carrot to roll customers into Essential Super

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is incentivising its banking customers to roll their lost super accounts into its Essential Super product by offering them the chance to win one of 10 $500 vouchers for Coles and Myer. The bank is writing to customers to let ...

Integrate next-gen insurance policies into NDIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... rewards. But the largest opportunity is simplifying insurance products, she said, while Batten added that the right mix of carrot and stick incentives could promote rapid uptake in new generation insurance policies. Read all Financial Standard coverage ...

Retail funds also guilty of 'Compare the Pair' vagueness

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
BT and ANZ may need to follow Industry Super Australia (ISA) in clarifying the language of their superannuation advertising campaigns, following a ruling by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) over use of the term 'average' in ...

Breaking Australia's love affair with the lump sum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... sustainable. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive Pauline Vamos has advocated a "stick and carrot" approach, rather than a cap. "There's got to be a consequence of taking a lump sum, and there's got to be a clear ...

Tax lump sums to beat longevity crisis: ASFA

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... "We're not calling for income streams to be mandatory, but with the longevity crisis Australia faces we've got to use a carrot and stick approach to encourage members to opt for income streams."
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