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Go south young (China) man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... an existing quota system, said Stephen Ma, senior portfolio manager at Lloyd George Management". And then there's the article in the government-run China Securities Journal - the headline says it all really, "Go! Buy Hong Kong Stocks!" With Chinese interest ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... money in the equity market - preferably passive - while we wait for illiquid opportunities to come up," said Sicilia. This article is featured in the latest edition of Financial Standard. You can read it on your iPad or iPhone by downloading our app ...

Rice Warner chief supports commissions cap

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... executive Michael Rice said the commission structure proposed in the Trowbridge Report is a "necessary improvement". In an article written for Rice Warner's INSIGHTS section, he noted the difficulty of changing established remuneration models, but argued ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... "patient"-induced volatility in the financial markets. Reuters called (past tense) it "patient panic" in its published article last Friday the 13th. To be pedantic, there might be some anxiety, increasing jitters but panic it is not (yet?). Still, it ...

AMP practice to pay $10,200 penalty

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... Commission (ASIC) issued an infringement notice for making false or misleading representations. ASIC's concerns related to an article titled "Benefits of a self-managed super fund" that appeared on AFPS's website between 22 July and 4 November 2014. ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
"Alea iacta est"! "The die is cast". This is what Julius Caesar exclaimed when he crossed the river Rubicon back in 49 BC. The same phrase that ECB president Mario Draghi must be uttering to himself as he began spending the first euro of his a,-60 billion ...

My QE, your problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
And it's off and... running. Whoops, sorry Virginia, I've gotten ahead of myself. It won't be hitting Europe's pavements till Monday, 9 March 2015 - the first instalment of the ECB's QE worth a,-60 billion, and a,-60 billion monthly hereafter until ...

Medcraft addresses ASIC's NAB response

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... regulator had agreed to alter a media release regarding a major flaw in NAB Wealth's Navigator platform - which, the Fairfax article suggested, "affected tens of thousands of customers" - on the bank's request. "ASIC is already expanding its work in ...

A little tweet told me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... - but that's small beer, what's a few hours between conspirators, ey? Zerohedge.com eloquently pointed this out in an article published on 24 Feb: "As it turns out, the reason why not only the Troika received an agreed to version of the Greek reform ...

NAB denies failing advice clients

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... systems and processes to deliver that high standard." Based on a "cache of confidential internal documents", the Fairfax article argued that 31 NAB planners had been terminated or suspended due to "conflicts of interest, inappropriate advice, inappropriate ...