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Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
Oh no! Bloody Vlad's back! Wall Street and the rest of 'em equity markets flashed red from New York to Rio and old London town as geo-political risks resurfaced following reports of Russian 'incursion' into Ukraine. That's if you believe this morning's ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
Raise your hands all ye who thinks that their economy is growing above and beyond potential, that there's no slack in their nations' respective labour markets or that their labour force is not "under-utilised", and that it's time... to normalise interest ...

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
"As we travel down the road, side by side we'll share the load Hand in hand we'll see each other through." -- Kenny Nolan, "Love's Grown Deep" Not long now, Super Mario Draghi must be beaming with excitement for his upcoming date with Janet Yellen this ...

Fear me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Geopolitical tensions ease, geopolitical tensions boil, geo-political tensions ease, geo-political tensions boil, geo-political... Financial markets continue to seesaw on this, just like they did with QE (I, II and III) on/QE (I, II and III) off and ...

Macquarie forced to contact all advice clients for remediation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) must contact all clients who received advice from its financial planning arm, Macquarie Private Wealth (MPW), going back to 2004 following action from the regulator. Under the enforceable undertaking (EU) in place since ...

More data leads to more bad decisions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
The human brain is biologically incapable of processing the reams of data it receives, and the more data we try to process without help, the more bad decision we will make. That was the message of evolutionary biologist Rebecca Costa's speech that closed ...

CBA, ASIC unveil details of new compensation scheme

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has revealed the details of the new licensing conditions for its financial planning businesses after the original process to compensate victims of poor advice was found to be inconsistent. Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFPL) ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
I'll be ROFL - rolling on the floor laughing - this morning if not for the fact that it's the big boys playing with nuke toys that are escalating their tit-for-tat aggression... even if they hurt themselves in the process. Instead, me, myself and I ...

Vision Super appoints first independent director

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
Vision Super has appointed its first independent director in the shape of former NAB executive Joanne Dawson. Vision Super chief executive Stephen Rowe said: "The board reflected on the environment and the debate about independent directors, and saw ...

Dying in social media: adviser's next big nightmare

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
Clients' presence on several social media platforms, with multiple accounts and passwords, is set to become a nightmare for financial advisers specialising in estate planning, as they will be forced to deal with the person's digital footprint after ...