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Dealmakers hold off investing in Australia

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
Merger and acquisition activity has come to a grinding halt as dealmakers are struggling to get access to finance in addition to regarding delays in governmental approval for foreign investment, according to the latest research from Pitcher Partners. ...

OneVue to take Taiping to court

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
OneVue will file court proceedings against Taiping Trustees to assert its right to about $9.4 million sale proceeds of Madison Financial Group and Sequoia shares. The ASX-listed company said its preference is still to resolve the matter out of courts ...

Adviser jailed over $2m Ponzi scheme

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
A former financial adviser and licensee director has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for misappropriating close to $2 million for his own use. Graeme Walter Miller of Myocum, New South Wales was sentenced on July 31 after pleading guilty to ...

SelfWealth awards brokerage mandate

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
ASX-listed trading platform SelfWealth has renewed its clearing, settlement and execution (CS&E) mandate with retail broker OpenMarkets, in a move that it says demonstrates the two fintech's shared objective of disrupting the status quo. The agreement ...

Insurers COVID-19 response slammed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
An announcement from the Financial Services Council (FSC) that life insurers would keep their COVID-19 support measures in place until the end of the year doesn't go nearly far enough, a lawyer has said. As part of the insurance response to COVID-19 ...

Chief economist update: Gold 2000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
Gold prices have already been on the up and up last year, buoyed by major world central banks' about face towards a more accommodative policy - led by the US Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts (July, September and October 2019). Gold prices ...

Tasmania leads the nation: CommSec

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
For the first time since October 2009, Tasmania has taken out CommSec's top gong as the best performing economy in its own right. It replaces Victoria, which has held the top spot in the online stockbroker's State of the States survey - either outright ...

Hume calls out ERS fake news

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
At the Financial Services Council Life Insurance Summit Senator Jane Hume has said "fake news" about consumers losing life insurance due to the early release of super has irritated her. Hume said consumers would not lose life insurance policies held ...

FASEA confirms 2021 exams

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
FASEA has confirmed the exam schedule for 2021, after the extension was passed. The authority will run six exam sittings in 2021 at metropolitan and regional locations around Australia. "We have seen a strong performance by most advisers sitting the ...

Financial services jobs show signs of recovery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
The financial services industry saw a significant boost to online job advertisements after suffering a major blow due to COVID-19, according to the latest Sunsuper Australian Job Index report. The financial services industry suffered an early, and extreme ...