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CBA advice compensation bill balloons

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
CBA is set to compensate a further $1.9 million to customers affected by five former "high-risk" financial advisers, according to ASIC. CBA will review the five former representatives' advice, licenced under subsidiaries Commonwealth Financial Planning ...

Last chance to win a Google Home

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
There is only hours left to participate in the Financial Standard Readership Survey and be in the running to win one of 10 Google Home smart speakers. More than 300 Financial Standard readers have responded to the survey, telling us how we can improve ...

Aussie crypto fund opens to wholesale investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
One of Australia's first funds to specialise in crypto asset investments is now open to wholesale investors with its first investment planned for February 1. Apollo Capital is accepting minimum buy-ins of $50,000 and will invest in digital currencies ...

Chief economist update: The good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... confidence survey showing the unemployment expectations index falling from 130.8 in November to 127.6 in December and 122.8 in January - the lowest level in nearly seven years. Now, for the good news: For the nth time, China has proven the experts wrong. ...

Former advice dealer group chief executive surfaces

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
A leading corporate advisory firm has added the former chief executive of a Countplus subsidiary to its executive lineup. Former Total Financial Solutions chief executive Marcelo Fernandez joined Chase Corporate Advisory this week, focused on growing ...

ASIC bans ex-CBA adviser for five years

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
ASIC banned a former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser from providing financial services for five years. ASIC found Kimberley Holgate advised clients to rollover their existing superannuation account to a new product issued by CBA's subsidiary ...

Chief economist update: Consumers don't spend on confidence alone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... Institute report on Australian consumer sentiment that showed the index rising for the third straight month to 105.1 in January - optimists outnumber pessimists - from 103.3 in December and 99.7 in November. What do consumers do when they're happy and ...

Chief economist update: ECB sees low rates for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
Echoing BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's quick push back on taper speculations, Deutsche Bundesbank president and ECB governing council member Jens Weidmann used his speech at the Ludwig-Erhard Summit in Bavaria to do the same. Like Kuroda, Weidmann's ...

Australia overdue for company tax cut: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
More than half of the respondents in Financial Standard's weekly spot poll said Australia should follow the United States' lead and drop the corporate tax rates to as low as 21%. The US reduced its corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% effective 1 January  ...

ASIC successfully files injunction against Melbourne advice provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
A Melbourne financial services firm is prohibited from operating while proceedings brought by ASIC continue in the Federal Court. ASIC commenced proceedings against Financial Circle Pty Ltd in December 2017, alleging the business was offering loans ...