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Aussie currency drives fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... provide an additional investment option for clients seeking new ways to invest surplus cash, especially as the implications of Basel III begin to take hold. The international investment giant said under Basel III regulations banks are no longer able ...

ME Bank recruits for people experience

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... bringing with her more than 20 years' experience in marketing. Separately, ME Bank was recently involved in the first ever Basel III true perpetual hybrid transaction in the Australian market. Law firm Baker McKenzie advised NAB and Westpac as joint ...

Lapse rates review anxiety unfounded: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
Anxiety around ASIC's life insurance policy lapse rates review among financial advisers is "misplaced" as only the most serious misconduct would result in severe penalties, a senior official said. ASIC senior executive leader of the financial advisers ...

Morrison backs customer-owned banking reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... KPMG Australia financial risk management partner Michael Cunningham said an unintended consequence of Australia adopting Basel 3 in 2013 was that customer-owned banks were prevented by the Corporations Act from raising equity through capital instruments ...

Inflated attention on September US CPI inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
Heading into last weekend, financial headlines abound over the latest update on US consumer price inflation. Financial market participants keenly awaited its release for clues on future Fed monetary policy direction...or so the headlines say. I say ...

India's upside risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
Perhaps the Reserve Bank of India was just following its former colonial master. For similar to the Bank of England (BOE) - it cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 0.25% in August 2016 to head off the potential negative fall-out from Brexit win ...

As clear as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
Seven in two. Seven Fed officials over the past two days have spoken, putting forward their individual rationales over the rationality or not of the Fed's ongoing path towards normalisation given the prevailing strong growth/labour market and below ...

Managed accounts demand dominates platform market

KARREN VERGARA  |  SUNDAY, 17 SEP 2017
The rate of growth managed accounts are experiencing - three times faster than any other segment of the platform market - will fundamentally change the role of financial advisers, latest Rainmaker research shows. Rainmaker Group director of research ...

Managed accounts forum unveils new format, adviser focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
The Financial Standard Best Practice Forum on Managed Accounts is introducing an entirely new and innovative format in 2017, placing financial advisers front and centre of the one-day conference. Financial Standard launches a new program format called ...

RBI succumbs to low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut interest rates by 25 basis points - repo rate to 6% (the first reduction in 10 months and the lowest rate since October 2010) and the reverse repo rate to 5.75% (reversing the 25 bps hike announced only four months ...