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Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... still holding below US$0.90. Yippee-ki-yay! Thrills, spills and chills would continue but if the fiscal and monetary authorities keep to their promises, we'll get the girl (guy) and walk before the final credits roll.

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... "Another stimulus initiative is being looked upon by the market as more of a source of concern by the fact the Chinese authorities see the need to do it." It's been reported China is injecting 500 billion yuan ($81 billion) into the nations largest banks ...

Anticipatory and moderate adjustments had become necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... premiership from Wen Jiabao on 13 March 2013 -- on this space before. For China is not a democracy where monetary and fiscal authorities set policy and wish and hope and pray that economic and financial agents react as they wished, hoped and prayed. ...

SEC adviser exams could cost US$310m

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... Commission (SEC). Firms with less than this threshold in funds under management are normally registered through State authorities and so are exempt from the effects of the proposed Bill. This results in only an estimated 11,500 advisory firms from the ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... to the target of 7.5 per cent, though Chinese residential property prices have declined in recent months. Chinese authorities at various levels are responding to these developments with the aim of maintaining stable macroeconomic and monetary conditions." ...

Federal Court judgements contradictory on adviser liability

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... Australian governments' attempt to redress the "deep pocket syndrome" whereby professional service providers and government authorities were targeted in litigation so as to gain access to their insurance. At the time, a successful plaintiff or claimant ...

BNP Paribas board approves $9bn fine

AFP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
BNP Paribas's board of directors has approved a settlement with US authorities to pay a record $US9 billion ($A9.74 billion) fine to avoid being tried for violating US embargoes. The agreement is due to be announced after markets close at the New York ...

ATO closing in on undisclosed offshore income

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... offshore income and assets. The ATO is examining information from a range of sources including: data from overseas tax authorities on Australians with offshore investments and bank accounts; information from Australian and foreign banks on fund flows ...

Vision Super merges its two funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
Victoria-based superannuation funds Vision Super Fund (VSF) and Local Authorities Superannuation Fund (LASF) have announced they will merge. The two funds already share the same trustee and the same branding (Vision Super), but are registered as two ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... HSBC chief China economist Qu Hongbin notes: "This month's improvement is consistent with data suggesting that the authorities' mini-stimulus are filtering through to the real economy. Over the next few months, infrastructure investments and related ...