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ASIC dismisses Royal Commission insider trading reports

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
ASIC has told parliament there was no insider trading around the release of the Royal Commission's final report. This comes after the Labor party suggested insider trading was responsible for bank stocks rising immediately on the back of Kenneth Hayne's ...

Chief economist update: A question of when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
Could it be? Could it be that Dallas Fred President Robert Kaplan has been reading my daily rants? That would be too presumptuous of moi but Factset's report that "Dallas Fed President Kaplan (nonvoter) told the WSJ the recent yield-curve inversion ...

Investors raise alarm on Facebook

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
In the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attack, many are questioning the role of Facebook in investment portfolios. After the social media giant live streamed the shootings, ethical investors have been forced to consider whether Facebook genuinely ...

Chief economist update: Japan should raise taxes another day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
The just-released "Summary of Opinions at the Monetary Policy Meeting on March 14 and 15, 2019" contained the same optimism that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) had been telling us and itself for as long as I can remember. The same rose-tinted outlook on growth. ...

Beware blockchain: ANZ

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
The big bank is not impressed by the oft-praised technology that is blockchain. There has been a lot of hype about blockchain in recent times but now ANZ associate director, trade and supply chain, Maria Bellmas has warned the technology raises many ...

NAB ends introducer payments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
National Australia Bank will no longer make referral payments to introducers. NAB chief executive Philip Chronican said ending "introducer" payments was part of NAB's ongoing efforts to be a better bank following the Royal Commission. He said: "Through ...

VanEck launches hedged version of $520m ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
VanEck has launched a hedged version of a $520 million that invests in MSCI Ex Australia using quality as a factor. The newly-listed VanEck Vectors MSCI World ex Australia Quality (Hedged) ETF tracks a hedged version of the same index tracked by the ...

Australian Ethical mulls Facebook divestment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
Australian Ethical is assessing its investments in Facebook after the social media giant allowed the recent mass shootings in Christchurch to be live streamed. Australian Ethical told Financial Standard it currently holds about $8 million in Facebook ...

AMP scraps bonuses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
AMP will no longer be awarding incentives for leadership teams. Meanwhile, former executives have forfeited long and short term incentives and fees paid to board directors have been reduced. In its 2018 annual report chairman David Murray wrote: "The ...

AFA takes red pen to Hayne report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
The Association of Financial Advisers has stepped up its opposition to the Royal Commission's final report, claiming the inquiry failed to acknowledge the value of advice. In a paper released by the association this week, AFA general manager policy ...