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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... 1030 AEST among the major banks, Westpac had lifted 34 cents to $34.20, ANZ gained 25 cents to $33.66, National Australia Bank improved 16 cents to $33.70, and Commonwealth Bank picked up 34 cents at $80.99. Resources stocks were mixed. Diversified miner ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... manufacturing activity and minutes from the US Federal Reserve showed officials are considering their policy options after the bank's stimulus program ends. Wall Street provided a healthy lead, with all three main indexes well up, while the US dollar ...

FPA and AFA unite: stop commissions on general advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... not want to see employees receiving commission for providing general advice or single-product advice. "We don't think that bank tellers or people who provide general advice should get bank commissions," the AFA chief executive Brad Fox told the inquiry. ...

FoFA changes to cost consumers millions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... advice. The reality is that cutting consumer protections just increases commissions and fees paid to financial planners to sell bank products. "It would seem that the banks' objective is to be able to sell compulsory super and other products through ...

Asteron appoints key accounts and group risk manager

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
Asteron Life has appointed a national key accounts and group risk manager responsible for leading the insurer's relationship with licensees. Danier Waller has been appointed to the role and will be reporting to Asteron Life executive manager Mark Vilo. ...

Pohl launches mandate hunt as non-compete clause expires

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... for business. The group recently opened a new investment office in Sydney and announced the appointment of former Macquarie Bank executive Andrew Dale as portfolio manager. Pohl said the company's flagship mid cap fund ECP AM EX50, has a capacity of ...

Easy CBs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... public well before the first steps in normalising policy become appropriate." There's nothing we don't already know in the Bank of England's (BOE) minutes too. The economy is fast gaining momentum, there's concern over escalating house prices but... ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... did not imply a faster time-table to raising rates. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets rose as traders digested central bank updates for clues on interest rate movements from across the globe. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies climbed 0.28 per ...

Macquarie admits "unresolved matters" with ATO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... Media, which revealed a full-scale audit by ATO investigators relating to three years of additional tax, which the investment bank never disclosed to the stock market. "This matter has been substantially resolved," Macquarie said in an announcement at ...

ASIC bans former Westpac trader

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
Former Westpac Institutional Bank trader Jeremy Kaviraj Nambiar was banned for eight years from financial services for creating fictitious trading entities and a false document. Nambiar worked at Westpac during 2009 and 2010 and he was in charge of ...