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Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
"Not happy, Jan!" This was Wall Street's immediate verdict on the Fed's disclosure of its non-decision following the much-awaited and much speculated 16-17 September FOMC meeting. The S&P 500 index declined by 1.6%; the Dow by 1.7%; Nasdaq by 1.4% ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... to allow the company's success to go to anyone's head. "It'll be hubris that pulls our firm down," the former investment banker asserts. "It's important to stay grounded. There's a reason Warren Buffett never left Omaha. Markets are incredibly humbling. ...

Bankers see ASIC user pays model as burden

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
The Australian Bankers' Association (ABA) said that the government's proposal to implement a user pays funding model for the corporate regulator would increase "the cost burden on the Australian financial services industry." The ABA urged caution in ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... store before the central banks of the world decide to act - concertedly and in coordination. I don't think any central banker would just sit and wait until the current market upheaval morphs into something more sinister. No siree! Only by pulling together ...

Ignition Wealth appoints inaugural chairman

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
Automated investing service Ignition Wealth has appointed a veteran investment banker as its inaugural chairman. Peter Meurer has more than 40 years' experience in financial markets and has been executive chairman of Asian investment bank Nomura Australia ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
The Reserve Bank's two-pronged monetary easing measures look to have come to an end but our central bankers will remain watchful of the currency, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management executive director and global fixed income portfolio manager ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... interest rates - even tomorrow - if it knows for sure that the economy would be able to handle it (and does). And what central banker doesn't want monetary policy to go back to normal? The thing is there are still plenty of spookers out there, highlighted ...

Action plans for Indigenous super

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
HESTA is the first industry superannuation fund to launch a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) aiming to further build its relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholders. HESTA executive people strategy, Sophie Sigalas, said the ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
I wasn't missing a few screws after all. Yesterday, I ranted and admitted on this space that I was confused with Wall Street's reaction - it was up strongly - despite "headlines upon headlines alluding to a September lift-off". "Wall Street's positive ...

Industry giants ramp up adviser ethics training

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
Financial planners from Australia's top financial institutions will receive ethics and moral psychology training, following major scandals in their advice divisions. AMP, Macquarie Bank, ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and BT Financial Group have developed and ...