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Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
Something's wrong - very wrong - with this picture. There's troubling news in the geo-political arena due to escalating tensions in Iraq. There's also the price of iron ore dropping to near two-year lows. And yet... the Australian dollar did a peek-a-boo ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
"Plus ASa change, plus c'est la mAame chose!" Pardon my french, Virginia. But nah, I'm not swearing... it's an honest to goodness French phrase that translates to "the more things change, the more they stay the same." This came to my balding head as ...

Palmer United will hold the key to FoFA approval

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... presentation of the report on the FoFA inquiry, on June 16. With 33 representatives in the new Senate, the Coalition will need six extra votes to approve the amendments to the financial advice law. The Palmer United Party's three Senators have formed ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... telegraphed it would be buying. And what do you need to buy European ABS's - and European equities that would be goosed by that extra liquidity -- why the euro, of course. Targeting the euro would have been a simpler and more effective exercise. Then ...

Nothing's good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... the contrary. It becomes self-fulfilling. It'll become "a false dawn" as another 'in-the-know' labelled it. Be careful, extra careful, of what you wish for.

Macquarie exec posed as family office to learn secrets

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
A senior executive at Macquarie Group posed as an employee of a fake family office to gather confidential financial information from a competitor. An investigation by the Australian Financial Review found that head of Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management ...

AMP carbon screening leads to just two divestments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... criteria will have little direct impact on investments, resulting in just two divestments and the exclusion of only one extra ASX 200-listed Australian company from the 'investible universe'. Yesterday AMP Capital announced it had introduced new fossil ...

APRA announces draft 2014-15 supervisory levies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... $117 million in 2014/15 albeit it's only a marginal increase from 2013-14. These APRA supervisory levies do not include the extra $72 million the regulator said it needs to cover SuperStream implementation costs notwithstanding this component of their ...

Intra-fund advice is also a commission: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... the ISA calculated that paying financial advisers grandfathered commissions and other incentives would cost Australians an extra $2.8 billion over the next 14 years. However, Treasury representatives questioned the findings during yesterday's Senate ...

FoFA changes to cost consumers millions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
Consumers could be $530 million a year worse off as a result of the proposed amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms, a report has found. The report, carried out by Rice Warner and commissioned by Industry Super Australia (ISA) ...