Archive for category Business & Finance

Job Front: Financial advisers sought

Financial adviser Edward Jones Investments is seeking, well, more financial advisers for the greater Sacramento region.

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Financial health: International diversification needed

On a clear and sunny morning, if you told your teenager to don a raincoat as he left your home, he might look at the sky, pause and offer you a skeptical look while dismissing your suggestion. After all, teenagers know everything, right?

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When the Power of Financial Literacy Meets the Entrepreneurial Spirit

As we encourage all of our She Negotiates students to do, Mandy and Tina recognized the opportunity

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Local’s business helps women with financial planning

By Sarah A. Henderson | March 3, 2011 12:57 p.m

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Investors look to social media for financial advice: survey

Social media are re-shaping the financial world and how, when and where consumers receive their financial information, according the results of a new survey.

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Broken pledge would dent super savings

It’s starting to look like the federal government can be pushed around by just about anyone with a big chequebook.

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Many advisers lack business plans

An absence of business plans means advisers are failing to make the most of their practices.

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Four Money Rules You Can Breakfor Now

Traditional financial advice isn’t suddenly all wrong, but many of these axioms no longer result in higher savings or less debt. So it might be a good time to break them — for now.

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Time to take out the trash

Rather that focusing exclusively on the Future of Financial Advice reforms, the Government needs to clear up all the outstanding policy issues in financial services, writes Mike Taylor.

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Protecting investors from themselves

When even municipal councils were subjected to multi-million dollar losses through the global financial crisis, Mike Taylor writes that the Government has few options other than to lift the bar on differentiating between ordinary and sophisticated investors.

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