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The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
Finally, it's here that long speculated week when the Fed decides. It's crunch time all around folks. Each and every FOMC voting member and his dog and cat must be busily crunching the numbers as I type to give an intelligent and convincing rationale ...

Lift Janet lift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
We're now heading into the home stretch people - the weekend before the week the Fed meets and decides. The FOMC has a full week from today to make up its mind and us, lesser mortals, the same time to speculate and rumour-monger about what on Janet ...

China stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
It couldn't have come soon enough. Hopes that China's powers-that-are would counter the slowdown in their economy with more stimulus measures - any stimulus measure - just turned into reality. Yes folks, Beijing's topping up last month's monetary policy ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
Magellan Financial Group has outgrown its 1960s office block on Sydney's Castlereagh Street and co-founder Hamish Douglass is looking for new premises. But the manager of the highly successful Magellan Global Fund is worried the sites he's been shown ...

Former Madison FG adviser banned

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
ASIC has banned a former Madison Financial Group adviser for five-and-a-half years. Michael Kolody worked as a Madison representative between July 2010 and January 2014. ASIC's statement said that during that time, he provided inappropriate advice ...

Charter Hall industrial funds swell

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Charter Hall has acquired around $700 million in industrial assets since 1 July 2015, bringing the group's total industrial and logistics funds under management to $3.5 billion. The $700 million in acquisitions over the past three months have been acquired ...

Zurich launches planner client survey tool

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Zurich has launched Wealth Index, a client-facing survey tool part of its robo-advice offering. Wealth Index is integrated into Zurich's Adviser Flipchart program, which, as reported in Financial Standard on July 15, allows advisers' clients to project ...

UK adds SMSF after slashing Australian pension schemes

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has added an Australian pension scheme to its qualified recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS) list after slashing the number of Aussie funds from 1,600 to one on July 1. From early September, the P Wyns ...

Labour market says go, inflation says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
Yes, no, maybe I don't know. That's the answer we got from the very latest US non-farm payrolls report on the question of a September lift-off. There was something for everyone. Those expecting the Fed to pull the lift-off trigger at their 16-17 September ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
Shots fired! Shots fired! Yes Virginia, Super Mario returned overnight and shot down the euro, putting smiles on the faces of holders of Eurozone stocks - Stoxx 600 up 2.4% -- and bonds - 10-year yields fell across the region. The euro dropped to as ...