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Morgans Financial licence conditions lifted

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
A full-service stockbroking and wealth management firm with over 60,000 active clients has had additional licence conditions lifted. Morgans Financial had the conditions imposed in November 2016. ASIC has now removed the conditions as at March 19. The ...

Chief economist update: RBA repeats history

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) may not even need to acquiesce to mounting consensus expectations for at least one interest rate cut this year after the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) good news on the country's unemployment rate ...

Adelaide to get cash-to-crypto trial

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
A global cryptocurrency exchange announced it is testing out a new way to buy bitcoin with cash, choosing Adelaide for the experiment. Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, announced the launch of Binance Lite Australia. The ...

Macquarie axes SMSF residential property loans

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
Macquarie Bank revealed in a note to brokers it has made significant changes to its product offerings. The bank confirmed it is no longer offering SMSF residential home loans, with the change effective from April 30. Macquarie will continue to service ...

Chief economist update: Fed on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
If there's anything that captures the greed on Wall Street, it's the US equity market's reaction to the Fed's decision following its 15-16 March 2019 FOMC meeting. The Fed gave the markets what they expected - it kept the Fed funds rate ...

Major US exchange to stop listing bitcoin

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
The US cryptocurrency exchange that released the first bitcoin futures contracts has had a change of heart. Cboe Global Markets will not list any new bitcoin futures for the first time since launching them in 2017. However, it did not rule out the possibility ...

Boutique manager makes executive changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
A $330 million fund manager appointed a new chief operating officer, while its chief financial officer has resigned. David Addis is the new chief operating officer of property fund manager GARDA Capital Group effective March 18. Addis was previously ...

Chief economist update: The AUD's resilience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will release the minutes of its March 5 board meeting - when it decided to keep interest rates unchanged at a record low 1.5% - today. I imagine that the men and women of the RBA board would have discussed the slowing ...

Chief economist update: Be fearful when indicators show no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
Uh-OMG-oh! Long-time and loyal readers would have probably noticed my change in tune over the past few weeks - from a mini-me Dr. Doom to a prophet of boom - based on the rationale that the world's major central banks have toned down and/or reversed ...

Countdown to 2019 FICAP Rockstar

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
The Financial Industry Community Aid Program's 'Who Wants to be a Rockstar?' is returning for 2019, promising to be bigger than ever. The FICAP 'Who Wants to be a Rockstar?' event is an annual fundraiser and singing competition in ...