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Chief economist update: Emerging markets feel the heat as Turkey burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... credit institutions could be caught up if the Turkish crisis spills over and continue to engulf emerging markets. Only yesterday, Argentina's central bank raised its repo rate to 45% after leaving it unchanged at 40% at its scheduled meeting less ...

NAB CEO apologises over super failures

HARRISON WORLEY, DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
National Australia Bank chief executive Andrew Thorburn took to social media yesterday to apologise on behalf of the group's 34,000 staff for failures identified at the financial services Royal Commission. Speaking about confronting allegations ...

IOOF executives dismiss conflicts of interest

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... financial services Royal Commission continued its line of questioning to IOOF general manager of distribution Mark Oliver. Yesterday afternoon, Senior Counsel Assisting Michael Hodge painted a picture of the retail group's complicated structure. ...

Conflict of interest too great for NULIS: Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
... whether or not that was adequate in respect of advice fees that were paid to licensees for superannuation members." Yesterday Hodge observed NAB was in a "hopelessly conflicted" situation by delaying the process of compensating members charged fees for ...

NAB looked to keep plan service fees, Royal Commission hears

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... compensation figure now stands at $87.1 million according to NULIS in a statement handed down to the commission last week. Yesterday the Royal Commission questioned MLC's decision to stick with grandfathered arrangements, raising whether the practice ...

Chief economist update: Do nothing RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... between now and then and the RBA could hike interest rates earlier or much, much later than consensus predictions. Only yesterday I ranted that the RBA wouldn't and couldn't raise interest rates before Australians, all, get a pay rise - maybe ...

Royal Commission work impeded: Hayne

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... IOOF ahead of the fifth round of the financial services Royal Commission, beginning August 6. In a ruling published yesterday, the Commissioner detailed that IOOF subsidiary Questor Financial Services - a trustee services provider - was delayed by more ...

Pinnacle splashes $50m on acquisitions

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... by a maximum of $15,000 to raise a maximum of $10 million. Both offers are priced at $5.50 which is a 3% discount to yesterday's close. PNI now has $38 billion in funds under management. All of its five-year affiliate strategies have outperformed the ...

Chief economist update: A pretty picture of the labour market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
"I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself, what a wonderful world." I apologise for mixing my song lyrics but, you're as cold as ice (Foreigners) if yesterday's report on Australia's labour ...

UBS chief investment strategist leaves

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... worked at Ord Minnett as a quantitative research analyst before this. The departure was reported in a daily newspaper yesterday. Cassidy completed a Master of Business in Applied Finance from UTS in 1995. Prior to this, he completed an economics degree ...