The latest quarterly research by brandmanagement has started to reveal the size and shape of a two-speed economy which has steadily emerged in the past few years in Australia.
The number of individuals who claim they have been adversely affected by home lending interest price hikes, petrol cost …
The long wait for Gordon ‘Gordo’ Brown getting into 10 Downing Street is finally over, but what impact will the new head of Her Majesty’s Government have on pensions and savings policy in the UK?
As chancellor, Brown was not a friend of the pensions industry. One of …
The past four years have been a boon time for investors with the average, the self deluded and even those who make decisions by interpreting the light cast by a full moon off duck entrails all making money.
But now the signs of doubt are beginning to creep …
Some financial services companies exude arrogance in the belief they have a great deal to offer Australia’s very rich convinced if only they could find them their business would be all the more profitable.
At the guts of this rationale is some simple arithmetic – fewer clients with …
The common mistake in branding within financial services is that awareness is the same as affection, when this just isn’t the case.
Awareness is certainly a starting point, but it’s got nothing to do with the desire to use a service or indeed its relevance.
In the process …
Deciding when to buy and sell stocks has been identified as the biggest single issue direct investors face day to day, according to CoreData Research.
Therefore a new ad campaign claiming to be the “ultimate analgesic for painful confusion, tortured decisions, crippling uncertainty and nagging doubts” is likely …


