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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
US consumer confidence The Conference Board's consumer confidence index jumped to 104.1 in September from an upwardly revised 101.8 in the previous month. This is better than consensus expectations for a dip to 99.0 and is the highest level since the ...

Zurich vet joins SuiteBox

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Zurich's former head of sales strategies life and investments has taken up a new role at subscription-based mobile office software provider SuiteBox. Andy Marshall, who worked with Zurich - initially as a regional sales manager - from 2012 to September  ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... "live" month for the Fed - so as not to be accused of taking sides - December is... the Fed said so. More so that the September "dot plot" indicates one rate hike this year. Sure, sure... plotting the dots gives us greater certainty as to where US interest ...

Perpetual reveals Kiddie's replacement

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
Perpetual Equity Investment Company (PIC) has appointed a new executive director following the resignation of David Kiddie. The former group executive of Perpetual announced he would be leaving the company earlier in September. Kiddie finishes his role ...

ASIC bans fraudulent adviser

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
ASIC permanently banned a financial adviser after he was sentenced and imprisoned for fraud charges. Sandeep Madhoji is permanently banned from providing financial services or engaging in credit activity following the successful prosecution of the Queensland ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... around 500 UK businesses across 38 sectors in the manufacturing industry - remained unchanged to a reading of minus 5 in September (in line with expectations) from the previous month, indicating the economy's continued resilience to Brexit uncertainty. ...

ASIC drops proceedings against two former directors

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
ASIC has discontinued its proceedings against two former directors of LM Investment Management (LMIM) and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has upheld an ASIC ban. ASIC has discontinued its claim against former directors Simon Tickner and Lisa ...

New director lands at Qantas Super

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
Qantas Super will welcome a new director later this month following its recent member election for the board position that represents flight attendants. Qantas international customer service supervisor, Bruce Roberts, will join the fund's board as a ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... 1.167 million and also the lowest level in three months. But the sharp jump in the NAHB housing market index to 65 in September (from 59 in August) that was reported a day earlier points to a near-term improvement. Japan trade balance While the world ...

ASIC investigating ASX outage

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has confirmed that ASIC is investigating September 19's significant disruption to ASX trading. The ASX has blamed the outage, which was the longest in five years, on a "hardware failure" though no other details were ...