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Celebrities cop $1m crypto fine

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
Boxing giant Floyd Mayweather and music producer DJ Khaled have become the first people to be charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for the unlawful promotion of initial coin offerings. Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled - real name Khaled ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
Spend, spend, spend appears to be this year's overriding mantra of the US consumer. The slow start in the first quarter of 2018 had been replaced by back-to-back quarters of exceptionally strong contributions to overall growth from American household ...

Chief economist update: Keep one eye open on the housing market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
Perhaps it's the long weekend holiday - AFL Grand Final holiday on September 28, Labour Day on October 1 - or maybe it's been out-headlined by news of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) met as usual ...

Advice industry in hot water

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
Dishonesty and greed were the key themes that underscored the Royal Commission's hearing into financial advice, Commissioner Kenneth Hayne has said. Releasing his interim report today, Hayne has said of the misconduct within Australia's major ...

Chief economist update: Stability is doing it for Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
Another new set of tariffs will take effect today in the on-going Sino-US trade battle. Yet most equity markets around the world registered gains last week ahead of its implementation. This is because US-China tariff phase two is less onerous than was ...

BTFG faces possible union action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
The Finance Sector Union is planning urgent workplace meetings and teleconferences with BT Financial Advice employees impacted by a planned restructure of BT Financial Group's advice offering. Last week BT Financial Group told Financial Standard ...

BT Financial Group proposes advice restructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
BT Financial Group is reviewing its business model for salaried financial advisers, with plans to discontinue the Virtual Advice offering - resulting in significant redundancies. BT Financial Advice has proposed the scrapping of its virtual advice initiative ...

Women missing from C-suite lineups

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
Women take up less than one in five positions in the C-suites of financial services companies, even though they account for more than half of the entry-level workforce. According to new research from McKinsey & Co, women are also 24% less likely than ...

Chief economist update: Younger migrants and the elderly keep wages low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
Australians, all, there's now 25 million of us... and counting. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that the country's population reached 25 million shortly after 11pm AEST on August 7. According to the report, population has ...

Diversity underscores wealth manager success

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
The wealth management industry's ability to realise its full potential and social purpose will be underpinned by a diverse workforce and conscious capitalism, according to Pendal chief executive Richard Brandweiner. Brandweiner said the volume of ...