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ETF market breaks multiple industry records

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
The Australian exchange-traded fund (ETF) market broke industry records in multiple key metrics in 2014, according to BetaShares' Australian ETF Review: Year End 2014. Foremost, the market experienced its highest ever growth in 2014, with FUM increasing ...

So sure it's certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
It's a done deal! No more ifs, ors, ands and buts. You can bet the house on it - including all its contents (breathing or otherwise) - that four days from now, on 22 January, you, I and Irene would hear the European Central Bank (ECB) announce two letters ...

SNB dismantles defense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
"Francogeddon", "currency tsunami", "shocker", "jaw-dropping". These are some of the words used to describe the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) decision to surrender and abandon the currency peg - erected back in September 2011 - against the euro last night. ...

Surging group premiums push insurer inflows up 12.9 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
Life insurance premiums jumped 12.9% during 2014 driven by group business, which has surged by 24%. The figures are contained in the latest analysis by insurance industry researcher Plan For Life for the 12 months to September 2014. According to the ...

Advisers looking overseas for growth

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
Advisers' confidence in the Australian share market to deliver high returns in 2014 has dwindled compared to the same time last year and many are considering growth opportunities in international markets, according to a recent Investment Trends survey. ...

ASIC cancels boutique's AFSL

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2014
Boutique Protect Ensure Pty Ltd has had its Australian financial services (AFS) licence cancelled by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) following a suspension of its licence earlier this year. ASIC suspended Protect Ensure's ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
This year has been another busy one for the financial servives industry. FoFA remained on the radar and the Financial System Inquiry has the potential to change things in a big way. The Financial Standard team takes a look at the issues that made waves ...

Global shares tipped amid slow local growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
Investors in the Australian share market can expect sluggish growth at best in 2015, as the fall in commodity prices flows on to the wider Australian economy. Plummeting oil prices and the resulting sudden fall in the domestic share market in early ...

Former Moody's analyst guilty of insider trading

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
A former Moody's analyst has pleaded guilty to passing on inside information which enabled a friend to make more than $180,000 trading shares. Daniel Joffe, 37, of Vaucluse, passed on information acquired in the course of his duties to Nathan Stromer ...

ECB came bearing no pre-Xmas cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
"Maybe this year, maybe next year, maybe never I'm confessing That I'm guessing all the time." Edna Savage's immortal 1959 classic "Maybe This Year" provides an apt background song heading into last night's European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council ...