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Treasury Group CEO to step down

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
Treasury Group chief executive and managing director will leave the company later this year and will be replaced by the business' executive director. Andrew McGill was appointed to the role on July 2011 and was previously a founder and partner of mid-market ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street fell sharply as a selloff in semiconductors, fed by a downgrade on suppliers, spread to the broader market. At 0805 AEDT on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Call it what you will -- 'patient panic' or 'patient party' - the fact is all and sundry dropped what they were doing to hear (or not hear), read (or not read) the word 'patient' from the Fed. It's there no more... with "not impatient" taking over its ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... lowest level to the highest back in 2013. It's done around 10% so far this year (and still rising) and close to 25% since 1 July - the low hit before it started its exponential climb. We all know why? The US is "expected" to raise interest rates one ...

ASIC bans former Patersons adviser for life

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a former Patersons Securities retail operations manager and financial adviser from practicing financial services. Based on a voluntary report submitted by Patersons Securities ...

AMP practice to pay $10,200 penalty

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
A financial planning practice licensed under AMP-owned Charter Financial Planning has been fined with $10,200 for misleading advertising. Victoria-based Australian Financial Planning Solutions (AFPS) has been hit with $10,200 in penalties after the ...

ASIC bans Charterhill director from financial services

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
Charterhill Group founder and director George Nowak has been banned by ASIC from practicing financial services until 3 July 2017. The grounds for the ban are that Nowak is an undischarged bankrupt, having applied for personal bankruptcy in July 2014. ...

Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
Yes. No. Maybe. I don't know. This is dear Aunt Janet's answer to the "lift-off" question that everyone has been waiting for - and speculating on -- since the Fed completed its QE taper back in October last year. There was plenty of information in the ...

NAB custody executive general manager departs

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
NAB Asset Servicing (NAS) executive general manager has departed the custody business to pursue a portfolio career. Christine Bartlett was appointed to the role in late 2012 and prior to that she had been leading NAB's IT transformation program since ...

Beauty in(foreign) beholders' eyes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
Earlier this month, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) released its Statement on Monetary Policy, detailing the reasons for the why and the wherefore it decided to cut the official cash rate by 25 basis points to a record low 2.25%. "...over recent ...