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PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
Look ma, China's central bank must have read the piece I've written yesterday morning calling their 1.9% devaluation a mere speck. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) topped it up with another devaluation of 1.6% by the afternoon for a grand total of ...

Macquarie adviser forged signatures, lied to clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
An authorised representative of Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) has been banned for six years after the regulator found that he forged client documents. Shawn Hickman engaged in unauthorised discretionary trading on his clients' accounts between November ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
"They see what they want to see, hear what they want to hear and think what they want to think." This saying was on full display over the past 24 hours, Virginia... just look at the headlines. Yes, of course, I'm scribbling about the talk of the town ...

Fee error forces Ausbil to pay $18m

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
Ausbil Investment Management overcharged fees of approximately $18 million to investors over the last ten years. Ausbil will have to remediate the fee error to affected investors and has appointed KPMG as an independent advisor to review the compensation ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
It wasn't only the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) that didn't surprise with its unchanged policy decision yesterday, that other reserve bank did too. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced no change in policy settings following the conclusion of ...

Social adviser implores positivity for planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
Founder of The Social Adviser, Baz Gardner, is encouraging financial advisers and planners to rally at the last hour and support the Positivity for Planners A campaign. In his post to a LinkedIn group yesterday, Gardner urged planners and advisers to ...

Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
It was enough to make anyone wet their pants - headlines about the 8.5% biggest one-day fall since February 2007 dive in the Shanghai Composite index yesterday. What triggered the sell-off, nobody really knows. Someone shouted "fire" and everyone and ...

Nikko announces Americas sales head, new products

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
Nikko Asset Management has appointed a senior managing director to head up distribution in the Americas. Fred DeSerio has been made senior managing director, head of sales and co-head of the business for the Americas. Based in New York, he joined Nikko ...

Macquarie pays $11m advice compensation so far

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
Macquarie Group's comprehensive advice remediation program has paid $11 million to disgruntled advice clients a year after it was put in place. Documents made public by the group prior to the annual general meeting today reveal that, to 30 June 2015 ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
It could be because we've been beating down on ourselves too much, too often and for so long that others think they come and have a go at us, Australians all, too. I was literally ROFL-ing when I read this piece from the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) ...