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Barclays cops $80,000 fine

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
Barclays Bank has been fined by ASIC for breaching the corporations Act and withdrawing $13.8 million of client segregated accounts money without authorisation. The corporate watch dog yesterday confirmed that Barclays had paid an infringement penalty ...

Treats not threats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... enduring its worst week since the start of June. Financial markets were scared off their socks that not a few failed to notice indications that, just as Halloween, Xmas too may be coming in early. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan index of US ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... China's economic slowdown was hitting aluminum consumption and Chevron slashed its earnings outlook. Shares took little notice of the improved view of the US economy from the Federal Reserve's regional "Beige Book" survey. At the close on Wednesday the ...

Liquidity comes at a price: Certitude

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
The net effect of manufacturing liquidity to meet investors' desire for access to their funds at short notice is insufficient diversification and reduced investment performance, says Craig Mowll, CEO of Certitude Global Investments. Mowll claims that ...

ASIC bans two advisers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... professional indemnity insurance. In related news, CommSec has paid a $50,000 penalty to ASIC to comply with an infringement notice from the Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP) for the execution of 48 crossings. The MDP found that between 4 August 2010 ...

Marathon assets under review

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... sent a letter to the firm's Australian clients in July this year informing them that Hosking has tendered his retirement notice. The firm accepted his notice after extensive negotiations were held to resolve management differences, which eventually proved ...

Businesses in for tougher times: Debt collector

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
Business conditions for Australian companies are much worse than currently being reported with tougher times ahead, warns debt collector Prushka. Prushka, one of Australia's largest debt collectors, has seen a worrying increase in the proportion of ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
Looks like some partygoers have gotten lost on their way to the party - Big Ben's party, that is. Less than 24 hours after Bloomberg Businessweek published this headline, "Fed Stuck at Zero Into 2015, QE Odds Reach 99%" yesterday, screens displaying ...

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... its biggest decline in a month" and most euro equities fell last night. Fed hopes faded. Could it be? Wall Street's paid notice to what I wrote yesterday? Yeah right! I can only wish. "I don't think so." This was St. Louis Fed's James Bullard's response. ...

APRA tweaks insurance in super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... additionally identified a major risk for both insurers and super funds stemming from poor data quality and put the industry on notice that standards should be higher. Although the SuperStream initiatives will improve the quality of data available to ...