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ASIC bans former Westpac-aligned adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... and reported its concerns about her conduct to ASIC in December 2014. According to ASIC's statement, Ritchie created false bank statements, emails and letters, deceived clients about their veracity, and transferred client funds without authorisation. ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... globally, be it equities, bonds, currencies or commodities should have come as no surprise given that a period of central bank policy divergence is approaching." Allen signals that "this will be the first time in six years -since the global financial ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... term." These were the words in the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy statement of September used to justify the US central bank's decision not to lift interest rates last month notwithstanding planet-wide expectations and preparations that they would. ...

NAB enters into MOU with Nippon Life

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
NAB has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Nippon Life to build a life insurance partnership. The goal, according to NAB's ASX statement, is to "[enter] a long-term partnership in life insurance product manufacturing," although NAB added ...

Nikko AM grows distribution team

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... arts organisation Musica Viva Australia and with financial services companies Legg Mason Global Asset Management, ABN AMRO Bank, BT Financial and Norwich Union Australia. Simon Green was most recently a business development analyst at Pengana Capital. ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
Who can you bank on, who can you trust? Westpac, you can bank on us! I haven't landed in this great land yet when this catchy jingle from Westpac's ad was playing on Australian TV back in 1989. Thanks to tech magic, I can play, rewind and replay it ...

CFAs told ASIC is for the consumer

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said the regulator has a significant number of individual surveillances underway at the big four banks, Macquarie and AMP. Speaking at the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) ...

Senior fund manager leaves AMP Capital for Ausbil

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... AMP Capital. Before that he held senior positions with ING Investment Management, Consolidated Press Holdings and Deutsche Bank. "We are very pleased to attract an executive of Gian's calibre. He has an excellent track record of investment outperformance ...

Use of bank-aligned advisers in decline

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... replaced by the internet. The latest Roy Morgan's Single Source surveyed over 50,000 people and found that the number of bank clients using their financial adviser to deal with the bank has declined from 8.4% in 2013 to 6.6% in 2015. At the same time ...

Big trouble in big China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... government will take more steps to bolster economic growth". And this from Bloomberg news, "Speculation that China's central bank will reduce interest rates or reserve-requirement ratios has increased before data this week that will likely show slowing ...