Browsing all articles from November, 2006


It’s of great interest to us here at burningpants that Australia’s big four banks have decided that it’s not enough to provide services to Australians of all ages – but that they need to be loved by them too.

All of the big four (and by that we …

One hundred and twenty five years since it first opened a store in London, the luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton has returned with an audacious new shop – or maison it says, which flies in the face of this new age of nationwide austerity.

As governments across Europe …

Jeremy Cooper’s MySuper is predicated on the fact that direct engagement in superannuation decision-making is not a priority for a large proportion of the population.

In addition to MySuper, which would see members invested in the default option of their current superannuation fund invested in a product with …

The market’s Euro-scepticism led gyrations were only mirrored in the UK last week by the polarity of extra-curricular activities attended by some of those working in UK financial services.

On Wednesday night hundreds of financial services folk flocked to the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show to marvel …

European regulators, particularly those in Germany, are under fire over a recent clampdown in short-selling and moves that could hinder alternative investments, such as hedge funds.

The chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, Xavier Rolet, is the latest figure to criticise Germany’s unilateral ban on the ‘naked’ …

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