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Convicted SMSF auditor disqualified

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
ASIC has disqualified a Melbourne-based SMSF auditor who is serving a jail term for previous charges. Nayanaka Arjuna Samarakoon pleaded guilty to criminal offences that included dealing with property reasonably suspected of being proceeds of crime ...

Chief economist update: This time is different

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
"It's murder on the dance floor. You'd better not kill the groove..." - Sophie Ellis-Bextor. "Stock Market Loser Kills Brokerage Manager, Self in Shooting Rampage". This was Los Angeles Times' headline reporting about an investor going into Merrill ...

A good set of numbers (almost)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2017
It was good. Nay, it was very good. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report on company profits helped explain the latest jump in the NAB survey that showed business conditions increased by 6 points to a reading of +16 in January - the highest ...

Down, down prices are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... those central bankers trying to cheapen their currencies in order to import growth and export their way out of deflation. But nay, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has repeated many many times that it is not targeting the yen, so have the European Central Bank ...

Mother's Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... payrolls for clues, rhymes and reasons as to the why's and the why not's for a December lift-off. This one's an important one. Nay, "monumental". Just ask Bloomberg. "To say the October payrolls report will be closely watched across the world would be ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... his dog and cat must be busily crunching the numbers as I type to give an intelligent and convincing rationale for "aye" or "nay" vote come their monetary policy deliberations on 16-17 September. It's crunch time for financial markets too, given the ...

Fee pressure turns super funds to smart beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
Pressure to lower fees is forcing superannuation funds to look for new ways to deliver returns at a low cost and some are starting to think the solution might be in smart beta. Head of HSBC Global Asset Management in Australia, Geoffrey Pidgeon, told ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... so, but I told you so... many, many, many times before. What PM Li likes, PM Li gets. The "expert" forecasters' rationales - nay, excuses - for why they got it wrong were oh so, predictable. China fudged the numbers. Yup, the go to reason whenever China ...

D-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... from the end of April to yesterday. To be sure, there could be more losses along the way. The Greek crisis remains fluid - nay, volatile - and who knows what tomorrow brings... or the day after tomorrow. Are markets fearful enough to trigger one of those ...

Mocking Maastricht

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
Is there? Is there not? A deal between 'the institutions' and Greece? It's a mere three winks away to crunch time and yet, there's still conflicting news on whether or not 'the institutions' would give Athens the euros it needs to repay one of 'the ...