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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
Whoopsie, I just got caught sleeping behind the wheels (er, keyboard). I just found out that there's now a term for the current "patient"-induced volatility in the financial markets. Reuters called (past tense) it "patient panic" in its published article ...

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 ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
The share market is lower, with falls in all sectors, despite a strong lead from Wall Street. The US market rallied overnight on shockingly low retail sales data, which bolstered the case for keeping US interest rates low. The Australian market enjoyed ...

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. ...

Advisers see regulated robo-advice opportunity

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
Two-thirds (68%) of financial advisers see automated advice software as an "opportunity", according to a Midwinter survey. Midwinter managing director Julian Plummer argued that the survey - which tracked the responses of 288 financial advisers - indicates ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
"Alea iacta est"! "The die is cast". This is what Julius Caesar exclaimed when he crossed the river Rubicon back in 49 BC. The same phrase that ECB president Mario Draghi must be uttering to himself as he began spending the first euro of his a,-60 billion ...

JPMorgan appoints investment banking vice chairman

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
J.P. Morgan has appointed a vice chairman of global investment banking for Australia and New Zealand, reporting to head of investment banking Grant Dempsey. Simon Ranson left Citigroup in July, where he had worked for 10 years, most recently as head ...