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Bernie Madoff dies in prison

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... businesses on Wall Street - claiming to execute over the counter orders. The asset management division of the company was nothing but a Ponzi scheme. It used investor money to pay other investors. The amount of money lost by the 38,000 investors in the ...

Chief economist update: RBNZ keeps policy steady on unsteady outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
If in doubt, remain patient and do nothing. This is the gist of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) policy statement following the conclusion of its April 14 monetary policy meeting. The RBNZ kept the official cash rate unchanged at 0.25% and maintained ...

ARK Innovation ETF cops neutral rating

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... portfolio one stock at a time, using each stock's cumulative scores as a guide to position sizing. But these scores say nothing of each stock's sources of risk and return, which may be highly and undesirably correlated to one another," Greengold ...

ASIC cracks down on binary options

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... in 2017 and 2019 found that 80% of retail clients who traded binary options lost money. Binary options have an "all or nothing" pay structure, the investor either loses the entire investment amount or makes money. They also operate on short contracts. ...

Australians bullish on 2021 recovery

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
... who sold risky assets in exchange for cash-like investments fall from 21% to 14%. More investors said it is best to do nothing, maintain an existing strategy and wait for the recovery, while those who prefer to time the market and buy cheap assets has ...

Chief economist update: Powell said, Yellen said

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... Treasury's rescue packages and its actions towards "expediting relief to the areas of greatest need". There's really nothing earth-shattering about their testimonies - we've heard them all before - but it's one of the rare moments the ...

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... So much for speculations over the Fed's thoughts and actions, Powell and Co. did what financial markets expected - nothing - at their 16-17 March FOMC meeting. "The Committee decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 ...

Westpac to combine Advance super with BT Super

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... Wrap...While this transfer will mean your Advance Fixed Term Pension will be paid from a different superannuation fund, nothing else will change," it said in a notice to members. BT's transition to the new super products coincided with BT pulling ...

Workers being offered nothing: Keating

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... government may forgo the legislated increase in the superannuation guarantee to 12%, Keating said workers are being offered nothing in return for accepting less in retirement savings. "I don't see any chance of real wages growth for the foreseeable ...

Chief economist update: Overvaluation tests FOMO and TINA trades

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... rates sound less enticing than the return of capital even at zero interest rates. In the general scheme of macro things, nothing has changed. The worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. Sure, there's the UK and South African variant outbreak ...