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Inaugural FAAA award winners named

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
... Financial Planner Professional of the Year. Celebrating its first awards gala dinner as a merged entity in Adelaide overnight, the FAAA named Burcheart founder and managing director Sacha Burchgart the Adviser of the Year. According to the FAAA, the ...

OTPP, PGGM chief investment officers resign

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023
... Plan (OTPP) will farewell its chief investment officer at the end of the year, as will Dutch pension fund manager PGGM. Overnight, OTPP chief investment officer Ziad Hindo announced he will leave the fund at December end, capping 23 years with the organisation. ...

ECB raises rates to record high of 4%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2023
Overnight, the European Central Bank (ECB) raised interest rates by a further 25 basis points to a historical peak of 4%, saying inflation is simply still too high. The governing council remains determined in its efforts to drag inflation back down ...

Federal Reserve raises interest rates to a 22-year high

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2023
... The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, taking rates to a 22-year high. Overnight, the Fed announced rates would rise to a range of 5.25% to 5.5% to continue its fight against inflation. Fed chair Jerome Powell ...

Inflation falls to 6%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2023
... present, and therefore misdiagnoses the correct policy response." Chesler concluded that consumers shouldn't expect an overnight retreat in the cost of goods and services. "Today's stubbornly high CPI data is a testament to the difficulties in ...

Bank of England launches first system- wide stress test

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2023
The Bank of England (BoE) overnight launched its first system-wide stress test to understand the behaviours of banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) in volatile financial markets. Recent chaos across UK markets has led to the system-wide ...

ASIC issues stop orders to Saxo

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
... also worried about the impact on retail clients who have an investment timeframe of around one to three years. "Where overnight financing fees charged for such periods may be significant in aggregate and affect the potential to profit from a CFD position ...

Economic stimulus unlikely in budget: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023
... Aird further signaled it's unlikely that the budget will include measures that "raise the dial" in the short term. Overnight the European Central Bank also increased its rates by 25 bps to 3.75% in an attempt to halt inflation. In our own backyard ...

Pension fund ousts chief over US bank losses

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... recover from large losses resulting from investments in Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank. Overnight, Magnus Billing was axed as chief executive with immediate effect. He has been replaced by Katarina Thorslund, the fund's deputy ...

Startup founder charged for defrauding JPMorgan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... 300,000 users. Javice, who had been brought on as head of student solutions, was terminated by JPMorgan in November 2022. Overnight, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Javice with fraud, specifically violating the antifraud provisions of ...
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