Fundamentally Challenged… What drives the AUD? The vast majority of currency traders that don’t make money know the least about what actually makes currencies move. Can you believe that? Trading isn’t all about Technical Chart Analysis, it’s important to understand what makes Currencies move… you need to understand the Fundamentals. So what drives the Australian Dollar (AUD)? [...]
It’s that time of year where the festive season has become a distant memory, and life has settled back into a ‘normal’ routine. This makes it the perfect time to start in planning for your financial future before yet another year races away again, especially given that tax time isonly three months away. All too [...]
There have been a lot of scare campaigns around the Mineral Resource Rent Tax that was passed into legislation this week. Many vested interests in the mining sector have pushed their personal barrow through the media in an attempt to muster public support, with some issues raised being completely misleading. In these sorts of ‘media [...]
Bonus season is well underway. Banks announce how much money they have made or lost and how much they will be paying out in bonuses. eFinancialCareers looks at year-end payouts by surveying Australian and APAC finance professionals who are bonus eligible and know the amount of their annual bonus. The eFinancialCareers 2011 APAC Bonus Survey [...]
Australian finance firms are focusing on redeployment and retention, despite the climate of redundancies, HR professionals from Australia’s leading financial institutions at a recent eFinancialCareers HR Roundtable in Sydney. While redundancies and offshoring continue, HR teams say they working hard to retain people in the business, or find them work elsewhere. “During downturns firms are [...]
With 2012 tipped as the year when the cash rate in Australia is more likely to fall than rise, consumers carrying debt would ordinarily be thinking about the savings they would make. However, as the banks have and may continue to independently raise rates on lending and move further away from the current RBA policy [...]
The global career site network for professionals working in the investment banking, asset management and securities industries, eFinancialCareers, recently announced the results of its latest Bonus Expectations Survey in Australia. The majority of finance professionals (50%) expect their bonus this year will be higher or the same in comparison to the bonus they earned in 2010. [...]