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Mutual fund assets lose $1.3 trillion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... Organisation declaring COVID-19 a pandemic and numerous countries around the world going into lockdown. "Moving into early March, equity market losses accelerated, ultimately falling more than 20% from all-time highs, ending the 10-year bull market," ...

Former Toys "R" Us executives face fraud charges

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... financial officer), and Richard Barry (former chief marketing officer) continued throughout January, February, and early March 2018, to misrepresent the status of Toys 'R' Us financial condition and to urge vendors to ship more product on credit." ...

Westpac served class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2019
... contraventions. A case management hearing was held earlier this month with another scheduled for late February or early March 2020, with the bank saying it is determined to fix its problems. Earlier this week, APRA launched its own official investigation ...

FSU seeks transparency on CBA job cuts

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... restructuring its digital infrastructure, leading to a number of redundancies in technology and back-office jobs. In early March, Financial Standard reached out to CBA to confirm the speculation. CBA did not disclose how many in its workforce was affected. ...

Chief economist update: China stitches it in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... gauge for new export orders returned to expansionary territory." The last time I looked the goings-on in China in early March this year, FactSet said: "Budget deficit target raised to 2.8% from 2.6% last year with CNY2.0T [US$298 billion] in tax cuts ...

Court fines stockbroker $350k

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... Court has ordered a stockbroking firm to pay a $350,000 penalty for failing to comply with Market Integrity Rules. In early March 2011, State One Stockbroking placed 19 bids on behalf of a client when it should have reasonably suspected the client intended ...

Asset manager awards admin mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... solution can support both large and specialty fund managers who are looking for compelling software solutions." In early March, Global Merces launched a regtech solution that slashes the managed funds application process to five minutes. FUND.ID, a straight ...

Acorns rebrands, issues prospectus

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... in other Southeast Asian markets, including New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. In early March, it launched its own super product Acorns Grow Australia Super. Lucas said: "Our philosophy of investing small amounts regularly ...

Chief economist update: Fed's on target, BOJ takes out target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... policy exit. But these speculations are, instead, making it more difficult for the BOJ to achieve its goals. As seen in early March, speculations of an exit alone led to a jump in the yen and 10-year Japanese bond yields - conditions that would, at best ...

AMP becomes class action target

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... week a statement from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (QE) said AMP has lost $1 billion in shareholder value since early March. Shine Lawyers class actions expert Jan Saddler said the firm is "of the view that AMP has breached a number of provisions ...