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deVere launches global contactless advice offering

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... wages - and this will, naturally, directly impact people's finances." Green also pointed out a future era of negative interest rates and ongoing volatility in financial markets will need attention, given "perhaps once-in-a-generation" buying opportunities ...

World rolls out stimulus

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... glass as half full. While the malaise in the energy and airlines sectors has been well reported on, there is growing interest in "bottom-fishing" individual names." The ferocity of the selling, Kassam said, seems to have abated and a bottom fishing rally ...

Investment manager criminally charged

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
The Australian arm of a global investment management company has been charged with breaching client money obligations. Societe Generale Securities Australia (SGSA) is facing criminal charges in Sydney on two counts of failing to pay client money into ...

Wall Street tumbles, ASX holds ground

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... since the coronavirus outbreak left the shores of China, with the S&P 500 falling another 12% overnight. A sharp cut in interest rates, stricter quarantine enforcements around the globe and a change of tone from US President Donald Trump all triggering ...

CBA in court over RC case studies

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... on 131,542 occasions, in circumstances where CBA benefited to the tune of $8,087,276 in incorrectly charged fees and interest on loans, and underpaid interest on savings. The AgriAdvantage Plus Package (AA+ Package) was sold to customers between 2005 ...

UniSuper suspends stock lending

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... "However, we are now in a market gripped by panic and we believe that restricting the ability to short-sell is in the best interest of promoting a more orderly market," he said. The efficacy of UniSuper's actions will depend on how many other funds ...

Former Toys "R" Us executives face fraud charges

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... fiduciary duties, defendants should have carefully considered all possible paths to determine which would be in the best interest of all stakeholders. "Instead, defendants took Toys "R" Us down the path of obtaining $3.1 billion in DIP financing that ...

US turns to QE, RBA to follow

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... signaled it will begin quantitative easing after the US Federal Reserve implemented QE measures overnight and slashed its interest rate. The Fed's QE measures include a US$700 billion bond buying program, as part of its effort to offset the effects ...

Stand still, get left behind

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... an increase in clients asking about climate change risks. "A number of clients who previously haven't expressed an interest in ESG/sustainable investing have been contacting me to discuss removing fossil fuels from their portfolios," Rae said. "They ...

Panic selling to do more damage: Ord Minnett

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... particularly against a backdrop of an already fragile global economy that had been balancing a confluence of factors: ultra-low interest rates due to waning economic growth and geopolitical tensions, record debt-levels and stretched valuations across ...