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Broker fined for lavish entertainment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
The Financial Conduct Authority in the UK has fined Tullett Prebon £15.4 million, citing "lavish entertainment" and lack of effective controls. The FCA said Tullett Prebon, an inter-dealer broker which acts for institutional clients transacting in ...

Chief economist update: Synchronised forecasts for a synchronised slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... China's Muslim minority." You, I and Irene could guess, presume and assume but at the end of the day, this is Trump's "Art of the Deal" tactic to get Beijing to kowtow to his demands. No way, toupee! Having worked its way up from being one of ...

Chief economist update: Are capital markets the next Sino-US battleground?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
... market trading since Trump first declared increased tariffs on steel and aluminium back in March 2018, followed by the trade war with China. Sure there were brief periods of peace but those following the Sino-Yankee trade war skirmish would note that ...

Technology coming for advice jobs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
Rice Warner says technology is likely to forever alter how people expect to receive and pay for retirement advice. New insights from the research house suggest robo-advice is not the only channel through which the advice industry will be changed by ...

Chief economist update: Whatever it takes, however long it takes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... "however long it takes". If you want to know how long, it's as long as US President Trump admits that it's him (and his war on trade) not his neighbours that's generating this downdraft and counter-cyclical policy responses from central banks ...

Chief economist update: Fed has Trump's trade war number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
... plus loose change. The latest Fed research puts numbers in Financial Standard 's claim that it's Trump's tariff war, stupid and the Wall Street Journal 's piece, Cut the Trump Uncertainty Tax... His best stimulus policy would be to end ...

Chief economist update: The budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
... Yes Virginia, Australian businesses have upped their capital spending plans in the face of multiplying challenges - trade war, global slowdown led by China and melting emerging markets, Brexit, wobbly share markets and on the domestic front, record high ...

Super debate too one dimensional: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
The research house has taken umbrage at the public commentary of several influential players over superannuation's eternal policy debate. In a post on its website on Friday, Rice Warner noted the continuous tinkering with the super industry had ...

Why do we need royal commissions, Hayne asks

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... rather than what unites us. (Conflict sells stories; harmony does not.) And political rhetoric now resorts to the language of war, seeking to portray opposing views as presenting existential threats to society as we now know it." Why have more royal ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
"If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War China's just implemented one of its greatest son's prescriptions and, for sure and for certain, it's gonna irritate Trump. Financial markets were shell-shocked ...