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A sobering lesson from a social move gone wrong

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... representatives. Howarth's status as an authorised representative of Libertas Financial Planning was revoked earlier this week and managing director Mark Euvrard expressed surprise at the adviser's aggressive rant on Twitter. "How can you monitor it?" ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... withdrawals, the ECB's limiting of its ELA assistance to Greece that we feared at the start of last week is happening this week... and according to reports, Greek banks - and the Stock Exchange - would be on holiday for all of this week. This means Greece ...

Executive appointment round-up

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
The biggest industry moves this week include John Waller retiring as a National Australia Bank board member and Standard Life chief executive David Nish stepping down after six years in the role. Qantas Super chief executive to retire - Jane Perry will ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... to disagree to agree. Yes Virginia, the Greeks and the troika have exhausted the third of the three scheduled talks this week and still... nada, nil, zilch. Still, financial markets remain relatively calm. The VIX index - the fear gauge - climbed overnight ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
The biggest industry moves this week are AMP's financial planning director departing after 41 years at the company and BT Financial Group hiring a new head of general insurance. Financial planning director to leave AMP - Steve Helmich will leave AMP ...

Over-reliant bank lending slows OECD economic growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... improving the structure of finance can lead to improvements in both economic and social well-being," Mann said. Earlier this week Fitch Ratings said a continued slowdown and rebalancing in China, high corporate and household leverage in several economies ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
The Australian stock market looks set to open higher, following strong gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0655 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 47 points at 5,574. US stocks were up 0.6 per cent, ending a two-day ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
A shake-up of Westpac's leadership team and new institutional sales head at Bennelong are the biggest moves this week. Westpac restructure sees senior exec depart - Group executive of retail and business banking, Jason Yetton, is leaving the bank as ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... Energy and Spark New Zealand, as investors pondered the prospects of the Reserve Bank keeping interest rates unchanged this week. The NZX 50 Index fell 23.704 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 5862.106.

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... Though doubts remain whether MSCI would actually announce the inclusion of China's stocks in its index tomorrow (or this week), one thing is for sure... the biggest kid of emerging markets is coming soon. The 'Wall Street Journal' reports that, "U.S. ...