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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Fifteen point zero nine points or just a little over 0.28%. This is all the All Ordinaries index need to slip by today to take it back to square one - where it was at the start of 2014. Given the lead from offshore markets overnight - the S&P 500 dropped ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Yesterday we found out that financial markets' worry about the Fed was too much ado about "considerable time". Any moment now, we'll get to know how the land of "Braveheart" and scotch on the rocks - Scotland - voted with regards to their divorce with ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
Financial markets didn't get the kitchen sink they were hoping for but the fridge - along with the promise that the kitchen sink would come later - was good enough. With the eurozone economy in a coma - second quarter real GDP growth was zero - and ...

Higher adviser education should kick off on 2018: FPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
New financial advisers should be forced to hold a higher education degree from January 1, 2018, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said in its submission to a Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) inquiry. The PJC on Corporations and Financial Services ...

Movers and shakers

Surprise exit for van Eyk asset consulting team Van Eyk's three person asset consultant team has left the company, the company has confirmed. Head of asset consulting Jonathan Ramsay and asset consultants Fil Andronaco and Jonathan Tolub resigned their ...

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 ...

Administrators fined over 'free ' SMSF set up claims

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)A has ordered a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) administration service provider to pay an infringement notice penalty after claiming its service was free. Your Super Accountant has paid ...

CommInsure nabs Asteron head of underwriting

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
CommInsure has appointed Asteron Life's executive manager of risk assessment to head the Commonwealth Bank's insurance business retail advice underwriting team. John Kraszula will join the CommInsure retail advice leadership team on August 25, a Commonwealth ...

Claims against advice arm have no factual basis: Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
Macquarie Group has denied recent media reports claiming its advisers cheated on competency tests and exposed clients to high-risk investments, saying that it would refer the matter to the Australian Press Council (APC). In a statement on its website ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
Is this it? Is this the beginning of the end? The start of that big one - the correction - that many have been talkin' 'bout, at the very least, since 2013 became 2014? Perhaps... maybe... possibly. For Houston, we have a problem! Oh sorry Houston ...