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A 1987-style crash cometh (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
The Johnny Littles of the financial market world are once more coming out of the woodworks, proclaiming that, "A crash is coming, a crash is coming"! They point to the biotech and social media stocks that are fast running out of puff that could produce ...

Synchron recruits admin staff to cope with adviser demand

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
Synchron has recruited administration and compliance staff to assist with an increase in adviser applications to join the dealer group. At least 34 individual advisers have applied to join Synchron in over a month, following the group's decision to ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
Minute to win it!... or rather the minutes of the Fed's 18-19 March FOMC meeting win it for Wall Street. The S&P 500 and the Dow jumped by 1.1% and yesterday's hated Nasdaq is now loved again, up 1.7%. But this was - more or less - how we saw it when ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The share market is lower as investors follow a negative lead from Wall Street's last session. Friday's big drop in high-growth companies in the US overshadowed a solid US jobs report, Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith said. "It was momentum stocks ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
The Australian share market is slightly lower as investors wait for a catalyst to give the market greater drive. Investors are hoping for inspiration from US non-farm payrolls employment data for March, to be release on Friday night, or the announcement ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
The share market is in positive territory, but finding resistance against any sizeable gains. Despite a strong lead from US and European markets, higher iron ore prices and speculation that global miner BHP Billiton is considering demerging some assets ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
Apart from last-minute end-of-month and end-of-quarter window dressings, this first day of the trading week should offer few surprises. It'll be a week when financial markets play the waiting game. Investors' attention would be on what the Reserve Bank ...

Industry receives FoFA bill with mixed feelings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
The financial services industry and the advice community have has mixed reaction to the bill introducing changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) with mixed reactions. "The Financial Planning Association is supportive of the amendments, other ...

Get set for FICAP's 'Who wants to be a RockStar' tonight

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
In a few short hours the wait will be over as the financial services industry rocks out in the name of charity at the Financial Industry Community Aid Program's (FICAP) annual 'Who wants to be a RockStar event'. Tonight's event will see 10 budding RockStars ...

FoFA changes to be tabled today

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
The government's amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) are due to be tabled in federal parliament today. It is not clear whether the government will introduce all or some of the amendments to parliament. Dante De Gori, general manager ...