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What Dow 20,000 means for stock-market investors
December 15th, 2016
What’s in a number anyway? That may be the question stock-market investors pose as the Dow Jones Industrial Average inches closer to the psychological milestone of 20,000. The Dow DJIA, +0.25% sold off on Wednesday as the Federal Open ...
FINRA Foundation Publishes In-depth Analysis of U.S. Investors
December 15th, 2016
The FINRA Investor Education Foundation (FINRA Foundation) announced today the results of its Investors in the United States 2016 report, which provides a detailed analysis of 2,000 survey respondents from across the United States who hold investments in non-retirement ...
Financial adviser pleads guilty to theft of more than $1.6 million
December 12th, 2016
Admits to stealing money from a family’s trusts that he was managing and using it for personal expenses A former financial adviser has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $1.6 million from the beneficiaries of three trusts that he ...
ASIC bans former ANZ Financial Planning adviser from financial services
December 12th, 2016
ASIC has banned Mr Andrew TambyRajah, a former employee of ANZ Financial Planning, from providing financial services for a period of five years. Mr TambyRajah, of Sydney, New South Wales was a financial planner with ANZ Financial Planning at ...
FCA proposed new rules on loan-based and investment-based crowdfunding
December 10th, 2016
Based on a review of the feedback received, issues seen during the supervision of crowdfunding platforms currently trading and consideration of applications from firms seeking full authorisation, the FCA believes it is appropriate to modify a number of rules ...
Alibaba Financial Affiliate Seals Bank Deals for Alipay Expansion in Europe
December 7th, 2016
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s financial affiliate said it would collaborate with three banks and a payments company in Europe as the Chinese company seeks to expand its presence there. Ant Financial Services Group, which operates the Alipay online-payments platform, ...
The top 10 investment ideas for 2017
December 5th, 2016
In 2017, we face a polarized political environment. The likes of Brexit, the U.S. election result, and key upcoming votes in Europe are likely to make investors more uncertain, not less. In a recent survey, a quarter of UBS’s ...
Playtech completes the acquisition of Consolidated Financial Holdings A/S
December 1st, 2016
Playtech (LSE: PTEC) has issued a press releases to inform that has completed the acquisition of 70% of Consolidated Financial Holdings A/S. CHF is a technology company with products including a leading Straight Through Processing brokerage which provides retail ...
What It’s better to invest in than Gold? Whiskey!
December 1st, 2016
Invest in Whiskey, It’s Better Than Gold While it gathers dust on your shelf along with your other spirits, you may be surprised to learn that your whisky might also be gathering interest—significant interest at that. Scotch single malt ...
CySec publishes information for CIFs in relation to retail investors under MiFID
November 30th, 2016
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued a Circular to inform the Cyprus Investment Firms (CIFs) that ESMA published on October 11, 2016, an updated version of its questions and answers document (the ‘Q&A’) on the application ...
