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Commonwealth FP fails to meet EU obligations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... Executive Accountability Regime - around CFPL's remediation efforts. The attestation and final report were due on 31 January but were not delivered. Instead, Ernst & Young issued its second report; the first was delivered in July 2018. ASIC said ...

Chief economist update: Time for an RBA shift to neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... the fast accelerating momentum in the decline in Australian property prices, led by Sydney - down 9.7% in the year to January (CoreLogic RP Data Home Value Index) - and Melbourne - down 8.3%. Not only is inflation "not showing any tendency to rise" ...

ASIC terminates managed accounts provider AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... financial services four years for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct. The AFSL cancellation took effect on 11 January 2019. ASIC has given Jade Capital until 30 April 2019 to terminate its existing client arrangements. The firm and Clinnick ...

Former Macquarie executive joins LICs

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2019
... independent director of NAOS Emerging Opportunities Company (NCC) and NAOS Ex-50 Opportunities Company (NAC) effective 31 January 2019. Williams was most recently an executive director at Macquarie Group, serving as the head of IT for the asset management ...

Chief economist update: The Fed pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2019
... of this year - fed funds rate at 2.25%-2.5% - at 80.2% (up from 72% a day before the conclusion of the Fed's 29-30 January FOMC meeting and 71.4% a week ago.) In addition, the likelihood of a rate cut by the end of the year has increased to 12.3% ...

SMSF expert joins AMP board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2019
... will begin her tenure at AMP on February 15. She left a non-executive director position at Centrepoint Alliance on 31 January 2019 to take up the role at AMP. Slattery was appointed to Centrepoint's board in November 2018. AMP chairman David Murray ...

AustralianSuper hikes admin fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2019
... will rise to $2.25 a week or an additional $39 per year. It is the $140 billion super fund's first fee increase since January 2009. AustralianSuper will also cease charging the $35 exit fee for both its accumulation and retirement products. It wrote ...

Chief economist update: Anatomy of an RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2019
... read from the Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment showing that pessimists outnumbered optimists in January 2019 - not a good omen for retail spending. Especially, given the weakening trend in employment (notwithstanding the better-than-expected ...

Aussie equities trading volume jumps at Liquidnet

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... increased volumes were a result of Australian members of the network using more algo trading solutions following MiFID II in January 2018. In addition to the uptick in the use of algorithms, Liquidnet benefited in 2018 from appearing on the trade report ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
It appeared that not only us, Australians all, were celebrating Australia Day on January 26. Our American brethren were too... but for a different reason. The Dow rose by 0.7% on the day (January 25 in New York); the S&P 500 increased 0.8% and the Nasdaq ...