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Advice industry compensation bill hits $37m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
The financial advice industry shelled out $37 million in FY17 to 2200 clients that suffered financially from bad advice, according to ASIC. The regulator completed 227 "high-intensity surveillances" of financial advisers and banned a total of 35 "bad ...

Pension fund consortium acquires renewable energy portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... solar renewable energy portfolio of Equis Energy for US$3.7 billion. Headquartered in Singapore, Equis Energy operates in Japan, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, India and Thailand. It has some promising 155 long-term developments in its pipeline ...

Genetics will test life insurance sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... China, Finland, India, Spain and the United States have no regulation on the use of genetic test results, while Greece and Japan have no regulation but do abide by codes of conduct developed by industry groups. Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France ...

Aussie super maintains good grades

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... pressures have alerted policy makers to the growing importance of intergenerational equity issues," Goulet said. He said Japan, Austria, Italy and France are examples of developed economies whose pension systems don't represent a sustainable model that ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... only dreamed of becoming a big economy not long ago. In 2011 it became the second biggest economy in the world, displacing Japan. All this from Bloomberg's 28 November 2014 report "China Overtakes Japan as World's Second-Biggest Stock Market". For sure ...

Go ahead BOE, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
Four days and one month before this day, the British pound staged a sterling rally - it soared to pre-Brexit levels against the US dollar and the Japanese yen (and to a two-month high against the strengthening euro). That was on 14 September when the ...

Japanese sun rises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... right..." - The Beatles The rally that propelled the Nikkei-225 index to its highest level last week lingers. On 11 October, Japan's benchmark equity market index rose by a mere 0.28% but its closing level of 20,881.27 points marked its best finish in ...

Expansion everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... manufacturing sector remains in expansion with "with average input costs and output prices both rising sharply". The Nikkei Japan manufacturing PMI went up to 52.9 in September - the highest in four months - from 52.2 in August. This is consistent with ...

Transparency to the max

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
... hurricanes; elections in New Zealand and Germany; and of course the policy meetings held by the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan. There appears to be no fear in the financial markets these days. Heck, the VIX index even closed lower to a reading ...

The BOJ's educated hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
They were just hours apart but the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan's monetary policy decisions were as wide as their geographic locations, perhaps wider. While both central banks kept existing policies unchanged at their September meetings ...