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BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... Switzerland (minus 0.75%); Sweden (minus 1.1%) - which have already instituted negative interest rate policies. Make no mistake, "The Bank will continue with "QQE with a Negative Interest Rate," aiming to achieve the price stability target of 2 percent ...

Limited AFSLs like "part-time surgeons"

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
Accountants with limited Australian financial services licences are like "part-time surgeons," according to John Birt, principal of advice M&A broker Radar Results. Birt branded limited AFS licenses "dangerous" and argued that in order for accountants ...

Robo-advice to drive down advice fees

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... great a disrupter to the delivery of financial advice as Uber is to public transport," he said. "It could be an expensive mistake to make an uninformed decision to operate a robo-adviser or to choose to disregard or dismiss them."

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... it? Wouldn't "the Committee's credibility" be shot if it goes ahead in December and it later turns out to be a policy mistake? The Fed's no stranger to this. QE1 was set and stopped only to be followed by QE2, stopped... and then "Operation Twist" and ...

Not this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... for the final time this year on 15-16 December, all we'll get are promises (threats?) that lift-off is coming. Make no mistake, it is coming but if we continue to get data like these it may not be until Xmas... 2016, that US interest rates would be cleared ...

NAB pays $1.7 million in compensation

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
NAB has paid $1.7 million in compensation so far as part of its Customer Response Initiative. This follows on from the bank's August update, where it announced it would write to customers who had suffered "financial loss caused by inappropriate advice ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Slathered in Vaseline and leaping from a tiny pilot boat to embark on a gruelling 14 hour swim of the chilly English Channel might seem a far cry from running an alternative investment business out of sunny Brisbane, but Blue Sky founder and managing ...

Financial services only mildly innovative: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
The Australian financial services industry has painted itself as only mildly innovative according to a study by National Australia Bank (NAB). About 39% of small-to-medium enterprises in finance have suggested there is a culture of innovation among ...

OPINION: Why ditching the monarchy makes sense in the Asian century

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY AT THE FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... insurance to Asia. We seldom publicly discuss the symbolic and identity implications of living in the Asian Century. This is a mistake. Identity, belonging and symbolism are important in Asia. The rebirth of the Australian Republican Movement provides ...

Failure to monitor ESG may breach fiduciary duty

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
A United States Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for actions against institutions that fail to monitor the effects that climate change has on their portfolios. The Supreme Court held on 18 May 2015 that trustees have a fiduciary duty, emanating ...