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ASIC penalties 'like being hit with a lettuce leaf': Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
The penalties applied by the Australian Securities and Investment Commissions (ASIC) are so weak that they are like being hit with a lettuce leaf, Financial System Inquiry chair David Murray said. Speaking at a panel session at the ASIC summit, only ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Call it what you will -- 'patient panic' or 'patient party' - the fact is all and sundry dropped what they were doing to hear (or not hear), read (or not read) the word 'patient' from the Fed. It's there no more... with "not impatient" taking over its ...

NAB to face Senate grilling over advice scandal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... have been clients of AMP, ANZ and Westpac that if they have had problems or been put into very bad financial products, they let us know. I urge the public to let us know because we will put the information together and we will put the appropriate authorities ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... think Janet's being magnanimous? No way, Jose. It's war, it's war I tell you - currency war, that is. The Fed can't afford to let the already strengthening dollar get stronger even more -- not with every other world central bank lowering their interest ...

ASIC bans former Westpac problem gambler

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... and gambling; he would activate the cards using his employee access and then get staff members to create PINs for them. "He let [gambling] take over his life and then committed these series of offences that fuelled his lifestyle," solicitor Peter Murphy ...

Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... then. Perhaps it's time to try the more effective fiscal policy to stoke "animal spirits". Bring back John Maynard Keynes and let the government borrow and spend to revive the economy. Oh no, please don't crucify me for saying that, we still have just ...

A little tweet told me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception." -Sophocles Breakfast wasn't nice for me yesterday. Nah, Virginia, it wasn't because the toast was burnt or the bacon and eggs semi-cooked. It's because I was eating my own words with my foot in my ...

CBA dangles carrot to roll customers into Essential Super

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... product by offering them the chance to win one of 10 $500 vouchers for Coles and Myer. The bank is writing to customers to let them know that it has unearthed potential lost super through an ATO data search and offering them the chance to consolidate. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... said these movements belie good reports from other companies such as Boral, AGL and Dominoes. "It's the big ones that have let the team down." The other big banks fared better, with Westpac up five cents to $36.86, ANZ had gained 19 cents to $35.09 and ...

Taylor rules the RBA just right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... from falling commodity prices and weak global growth. Besides, other central banks - big and small - are already doin' it, let's have what they're having and join the currency war. But the rationales for the "no cut" camp are equally as rational. A cut ...