In retail banking, around half of all people who either never visit their local bank branch or do so more than five times a month are highly unlikely to recommend that bank to friends or family.
According to a new piece of CoreData tracking research, frequency of contact …
They say that laughter is the best medicine. Well this might explain the multitude of so-called ‘Credit Crunch’ parodies emerging of late.
These range from re-writes of Queen’s drunken karaoke favourite, Bohemian Rhapsody, a slide show of how sub-prime was sold and packaged as investments and also a flow …
Few of Australia’s financial advisers believe domestic or international share markets will see an improved performance in the second quarter of 2008 after a tumultuous start to the year.
With investment funds, super funds and some investors bracing for the reality of negative returns for the 2007-2008 financial …
China’s media machine is working hard on two fronts at present – one is the very public and sensitive issue relating to Tibet, the other is more subtle and relates to China weaning itself off its reliance on the US for economic strength.
Politicians, economists and general observers have …
According to Oscar Wilde – who knew a thing or two about ending things badly having died in a small room in France complaining about the wall paper soon after his release from jail – living in the lap of luxury is fine, until luxury stands up.
So today we …
Investors who have a relationship with a planner aligned to a financial institution are twice as likely to be feeling financial pain due to interest rate rises according to the latest CoreData Investor Sentiment Index.
The first quarterly report of 2008 reveals that while 14.4% of all respondents …
