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Calls to give ASIC power to repair reputations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2019
... lethal consequences," he said. Crutchfield went as far as to compare the banking Royal Commission to the executions of the French Revolution. "In the financial services Royal Commission, the metaphorical tumbrels of the Jacobin revolution rolled up and ...

Charles Schwab reverses out of Australia again

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
The American investing giant is shutting down its Sydney office less than two years after it came back to Australia for round two, according to a letter sent to investors. Charles Schwab's Frenchs Forest based office led by managing director John-Paul ...

Bonds raise alarm at fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... holding company Tennor Holding, including Italian lingerie maker La Perla, oil field operator Trent Petroleum Finance and French film distribution company. These bonds were highly illiquid and H20's six funds together had more than €1.4 billion ...

Fintechs to play vital ESG role: AXA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... measure the impact of temperature change due to climate change on portfolios. "Part of what we have to do under law in the French markets is answer what we are doing about climate change, under the two degree agreement that came out of the Paris accords," ...

NZ$5 trillion investor group supports Christchurch Call

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... major tech companies and governments, the Christchurch Call was launched by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron. The Christchurch Call outlines voluntary commitments that governments and online service providers ...

Frontier Advisors builds investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... research expertise are real estate, transport, logistics, oil and gas and logistics across MENA. She has a CFA and speaks French and Arabic. James Kosmatos was most recently a senior consultant in the PWC Wealth team with responsibilities across research ...

AMP Capital hires award-winning stock picker

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... multinational energy providers. Prior to this he was a Credit Suisse vice-president on the utilities research team, covering French utilities companies. In both these roles, he won the StarMine awards. While working at Credit Suisse, he was the best ...

Chief economist update: Emerging markets feel the heat as Turkey burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... assets." Digging deeper, an article on uk.lalalay.com reveals that: "Spanish banks are owed $83.3bn by Turkish borrowers, French banks are owed $38.4bn and Italian lenders $17bn in a mix of local and foreign currencies." Deeper still, below is the list ...

Chief economist update: Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... interference is going against the prescriptions of the economic principle termed "laissez faire". Google translates this French phrase as "let do"; my ECO 101 teacher says it's "let it be" (which is more apropos, but he's not French). In a nutshell ...

Chief economist update: Malcolm puts agricuture in the middle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
... names as feta, parmesan and prosecco, or bearing the Italian flag colours of red, white and green on their packaging. The French are the most stubborn about access for agriculture." (AFR) This comes at a time when the Australian Bureau of Agricultural ...