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ASIC bans former Macquarie adviser for market manipulation

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
ASIC has banned a former Macquarie Equities accredited derivatives adviser for market manipulation. Working with a former Credit Suisse employee, Tony Davidof manipulated the price of MINI derivatives via sequential buy and sell trades after both pre-arranging ...

ASIC bans NAB-aligned adviser

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
A financial adviser linked with National Australia Bank (NAB) owned Meritum Financial Group has been banned for six years by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). NAB has welcomed ASIC's action against Mark Tidbury after the bank ...

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
Two days before lift-off. But in case there's still any doubt, allow me to replay what US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told the US Congress' Joint Economic Committee only less than a forthnight ago: "... I anticipate continued economic growth ...

Belabouring the labour market stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
"Tell them they're dreaming!" Perhaps Virginia, for despite headlines upon headlines of woeful below trend growth in the Australian economy, the slowness of the non-mining sector to fill up the big hole left by mining and job cut announcements... here ...

Lazard global equity fund receives first rating

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
A Lazard Asset Management global equity fund has received a "recommended" rating from independent research house Zenith Investment Partners after its inaugural review. The Lazard Global Equity Franchise Fund, since its inception in October 2013, has ...

Class to list on ASX before Christmas

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
Self-managed superannuation administrative software provider Class is expected to commence trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) from 16 December 2015. Class closed its IPO offer on 4 December with about $25 million allocated to new investors ...

US Fed cleared for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... in October. The jobless rate remained unchanged at 5.0% with the participation rate ticking up to 62.5% from 62.4% in October - "absorbing people who were perhaps discouraged". It's now only a matter of waiting for 16 December for the official announcement. ...

Did ECB under-deliver or markets over-expect?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
Financial markets have been eagerly awaiting (and rubbing their palms at the same time) this meeting - the 3 December ECB Governing Council meeting - ever since the ECB President promised at his 22 October press conference in Malta that, "The degree ...

Pinebridge absolute return fund rated by Zenith

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
The PineBridge Global Dynamic Absolute Return Fund has been awarded a 'recommended' rating by Zenith Investment Partners in the research house's '2015 Multi-Asset, Real Return' sector review. This follows an 'Investment Grade' rating from Lonsec Research ...

And then there's gonna be five

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
It didn't happen overnight, but it will happen. It may be a bit of an anti-climax but it's now official... the Chinese yuan will formally join the US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound in the International Monetary Fund's basket ...