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Deutsche Bank job cuts

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
Deutsche Bank Australia has declined to either confirm or deny recent job cut rumours. Bloomberg yesterday reported that Deutsche Bank would consider cutting up to 1000 positions in its investment bank after declines in revenue. The job cuts would be ...

The twain could not meet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
What's wrong with this picture? "Investors pushed stocks sharply higher, erasing all of July's losses, as investors reacted to strong corporate earnings and continued hopes for central-bank intervention." Nothing it seems. It sounds oh, so rationale. ...

ASIC bans Sydney adviser

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission has banned Sydney based adviser Colin James Oberg from providing financial services after he withdrew over $1.55 million of client funds without approval. At the time of the offence, Oberg was a financial ...

Zenith wins BT research from S&P

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
Zenith Investment Partners has won the contract to provide investment fund research services to BT Financial. The appointment will see Zenith replace Standard & Poor's as the Westpac Group's external investment research provider from October 1, when ...

Uncertainly good or bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
There is the good news. The EU finally came through and is about to implement its first set of "breakthroughs" agreed upon at last month's summit. Eurozone finance ministers shook hands on the a,-100 billion aid promised to Spain, with an initial downpayment ...

IMF issues buy order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
Well, well, well. Don't look now folks for we may have just received the best indicator of the financial markets' direction over the next three months, at least. No Virginia, it's not yesterday's decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to sit ...

Former adviser pleads guilty to dishonest dealings

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
Former financial adviser Trevor Wayne Carll has pleaded guilty in Adelaide District Court to one count of deception and two counts of dishonest dealings with documents. The charges arose from Australian Securities & Investments Commission's (ASIC) investigation ...

Is this the crisis moment?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
This may be the one we've all been waiting for - the 'crisis moment' that pushes the region that shares a single currency into a unified course of action. Equity markets dropped big time overnight from New York to Rio and old London town - and of course ...

AFA award nominations now open

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
The Association of Financial Advisers has today opened nominations for its annual AFA Rising Star of the Year Award. The Award, now in its eight year, invites advisers from across the sector to nominate colleagues that demonstrate a high level of advisory ...

More SMSF trustees go it alone

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
A desire for control and growing pressure on fees are the main reasons SMSF investors are relying less on advice, according to the latest Vanguard and Investment Trends Self-managed Super Fund Report. The use of advisers by the SMSF sector declined ...