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FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... have seen little take-up. CBA reacts to planning scandal 2014 has arguably been the most difficult year for Commonwealth Bank's wealth management arm. The year started with hundreds of submissions from disgruntled Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFPL) ...

Court approves Great Southern settlement

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... in 2009. Victorian Supreme Court Justice Clyde Croft approved the settlement yesterday, agreed to by Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and about 2,000 of its borrowers in July. Justice Croft described the collapse as a tragedy for many people, including investors ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... $34.35. Among the major banks, Westpac was up 15 cents at $33.50, but ANZ had dipped eight cents to $32.32, Commonwealth Bank was off six cents at $82.33, and National Australia Bank had backtracked nine cents to $32.31. Waste management firm Transpacific ...

Robots will take over white collar jobs first

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... the jobs most at risk of being automated, with the first being accountants, followed by cashiers, secretaries, typists and bank tellers. Door-to-door sales, telecom installers and taxi cab drivers are the least likely to be replaced by robots. In the ...

ANZ asks for US-style national adviser exam

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... financial advisers that mirrors the United States Series 7 exam run by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The bank estimated that it would cost $600,000 to kick-start the proposed exam. However the bank would look to recoup the costs ...

Australian Ethical backs NAB Climate Bond

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... financed by the Climate Bond has supplied enough energy to power 730,000 households for one year. The Climate Bond is the first bank-issued bond in Australia to meet the criteria of the International Standards and Certification Scheme. "Investors can ...

Oil slide, CEO pay and that "income recession"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
Oil! Oil! Oil! It's on the slide again! Just when we thought, the price of that black gold has found its footing, fresh news of higher supply and inventories and predictions of lesser demand next year took the floor from under it. While I still maintain ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... to-ings and fro-ings again," he said. "But I think the more important thing for Europe is going to be the European Central Bank's decision to broaden out its so called quantitative easing, to buy government bonds. "Hopefully, Greece can be quarantined ...

Hastings partners with Japanese bank

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
Hastings Funds Management has partnered with the largest trust bank in Japan, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (SuMi Trust), to invest in infrastructure debt opportunities in Europe. Under the partnership, Hastings and Tokyo-based SuMi Trust have already ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... recent clocked at running below trend, is now in an "income recession" and all that jazz. So much so, that National Australia Bank has now changed its guesstimate from steady interest rates to two interest rate cuts early next year. Then there's Greece. ...