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Peak iron ore?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
Governor Philip Lowe's statement explaining the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy decision to keep interest rates unchanged at 1.5% at their 5 September Board meeting, revealed the Australian central bank's optimism over the international ...

Currency trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
Only one thing is certain about floating exchange rates, they float...up and down. A currency's direction would be easier to predict if, and only if, it does not stir up reactions in the macro-economy and central bank policy responses. Take for example ...

Female Excellence Award finalists announced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
The five finalists in the 2017 Female Excellence in Advice Award have been named. Presented by the Association of Financial Advisers and TAL, the FEIA Award recognises the significant contributions made by women in the financial advice profession, their ...

Labor, FSU call for Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2017
APRA's inquiry into the Commonwealth Bank reinforces an urgent need for a banking Royal Commission, according to Labor and the Finance Sector Union of Australia. If there are doubts about the need for a Royal Commission a year ago, there can be no doubts ...

APRA launches inquiry into CBA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2017
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will establish an independent inquiry into the Commonwealth Bank, following a series of scandals which have called the integrity of Australia's largest bank into question. The inquiry, conducted by an APRA-appointed ...

Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
US data releases dumped on our screens overnight, combined with easing US/North Korean tensions, provide another green light for the Fed to proceed with policy normalisation. Balance sheet unwinding and another rate hike before 2017 turns into 2018 ...

ASIC and CBA discussing potential advice problem

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
The hits keep coming for Commonwealth Bank with new details of problems within the bank that have cost customers and employees millions of dollars. Hours after the bank was forced to refund more than $10 million for mis-sold consumer credit insurance ...

ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
One thing stood out when the Reserve Banks of India (RBI), Australia (RBA) and New Zealand (RBNZ) conducted their monetary policy meetings in August, and that is... they all want a lower exchange rate (please sir). Both the RBA and the RBNZ kept interest ...

CBA chief executive will stand down

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
Embattled Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev will retire from the bank by the end of the 2018 financial year, board chair Catherine Livingstone has announced. The decision, said to have been made by the board in conjunction with Narev, will ...

CBA contemplates CommInsure sale

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
Commonwealth Bank confirmed in its annual results presentation that third parties are discussing an acquisition of the bank's life insurance business. Describing CommInsure as a "strong business with scale, expertise, competitive products and access ...