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ASIC targets securities dealers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is honing in on securities dealers after discovering evidence of insufficient steps to ensure clients receive appropriate advice. ASIC's fourth market supervision report is the first to include information ...

Heads roll at Nomura

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
The chief executive officer and chief operating officer of ailing Japanese investment bank Nomura will step down to take responsibility for an insider trading scandal. Kenichi Watanabe, Nomura's chief executive, and Takumi Shibata, its chief operating ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... defer hiring too if I were them - especially if Tom Cruise is thrown out of Scientology. But jesting aside, buried deep inside the negative employment headlines are some bright sparks. Average hourly earnings growth continues to improve - up 0.3% in ...

Avenue joins Lonsdale

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
... Adviser group Avenue Capital Management will join IOOF's Lonsdale Financial group, cementing the conglomerate's place well inside the industry's top 10. The agreement to join Lonsdale adds 30 adviser to their stable, bringing their combined numbers to ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... third straight month of increase and better than expectations for only a 0.4% gain. All good. Except that, buried deep inside the "feel good" headlines was the US Conference Board's report showing that consumer confidence dropped to a lower than expected ...

BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... writing about them. Good thing equity markets in Australia and Asia were able to celebrate Greece's decision to be tortured inside the euro rather than outside it, Wall Street and European equities didn't even get a look in on, this, the first trading ...

Former Lonsec director charged with insider trading

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... Investments Commission investigation (ASIC) alleges that in the course of advising Clean Seas Ltd (Clean Seas), Graham received inside information about Clean Seas, and while in possession of that inside information, Graham disposed of securities in ...

Advice frameworks need an overhaul

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... objectives - say a 70-80% chance of meeting those terms." "For retirement, you then begin to add in the age pension and assets inside and outside of super and start to look at it as a holistic problem, so you get much richer information." One of the ...

Coalition clears up FOFA questions

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... us clarity around the provision of standard advice and we will further refine the ban on commissions on risk insurance inside superannuation," Cormann said. Deferral of FOFA implementation has also been supported by the coalition, on the basis the timeline ...

Industry questions RE concept after Trio collapse

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
An in-house responsible entity has been singled out as a common theme between Trio and other collective investment collapses since 2007, although industry insiders have labelled the comment a rehash of an old debate. "While the report shared around ...