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Van Eyk starts due diligence with potential buyer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Van Eyk administrator Moore Stephens has entered into an exclusivity arrangement with a potential buyer of the van Eyk Australian business which is now conducting due diligence. Moore Stephens will nevertheless recommend moving the research business ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
"Dead cat bounce" andA "Catch a falling knife." These phrases have crept back into financial market vernacular lately. We read and hear about these phrases mostly during phases when the financial markets are in a state of flux and/or heightened volatility ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Talk about being careful... for they might come true. 'Twas not so long ago that Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) and the IMF worried about complacency in the financial markets as indicated by low, down on the ground ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Like a dog with a bone, financial markets have latched onto growth - or more precisely, the lack of it - and wouldn't let go. Wall Street remains in no mood for celebration even as America commemorated the day Christopher Columbus discovered their land ...

Premium signs up three accounting practices

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
Dealer group Premium Wealth Management has signed up three new accounting practices who are looking to add financial planning operations to their businesses. ADX Financial Planning (formerly part of Moon Cunningham and licensed through Count), Sullivans ...

Now where have I heard that before?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
Houston, we've got another one. Another one of those big falls on Wall Street - yup, those ones that almost always begs the question, is this the one (the start of a bigger correction) or another dip begging to be bought? This time it's the International ...

Van Eyk finds buyer for NZ business

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
A New Zealand-based independent financial advice firm is completing the final steps to acquire van Eyk's New Zealand business. Sources from van Eyk's administrator Moore Stephens confirmed to Financial Standard that advice firm Saturn Portfolio was ...

Van Eyk administrator optimistic of finding buyer

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
The future of van Eyk Research must be determined before the end of October but the stricken consulting and research firm's administrator remains optimistic a buyer will be found after receiving a number of expressions of interest. A committee of creditors ...

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
The emerging markets investment landscape is best understood in terms of country blocs that perform similarly as the macro environment evolves, according to Investec Asset Management Global Strategist, Dr Michael Power. Power presented an analogy where ...

FPA rejects FSC adviser regulation plans

ALICE URIBE, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has rejected the Financial Services Council's (FSC) proposal to establish a statutory, independent board to oversee advice, saying that there was no need for further regulation, with the mooted board simply "reinventing ...