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FMA: New Zealanders underestimate investment risk and prefer lower risk investment options
October 15th, 2014
Research conducted for the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) shows Kiwis are switched-on about straightforward, low-risk investment options. But when responding to questions about investments with more risk, people are far less confident. The FMA ran the survey as part ...
Biron Apparel Limited fined for failing to lodge financial reports
October 15th, 2014
Australian public company, Biron Apparel Limited (Biron Apparel), has been convicted a second time for failing to lodge financial reports with ASIC, the Australian regulator, and hold annual general meetings. Biron Apparel was fined $12,000 after pleading guilty in ...
FCA targets those most at risk of investment fraud
October 15th, 2014
FCA in an effort to inform investors and prevent investment frauds has issued a campaign to raise awareness on the issue. Investment scams generally involve high-pressured selling, using boiler room tactics, for products which often do not exist, including ...
IronFX was granted enhanced Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) licence
October 15th, 2014
IronFX Global UK Ltd was granted with an enhanced Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) licence. The enhanced permission will allow IronFX Global UK to deal as principle and agent in investments as well as to hold client funds. With this ...
Abigail Johnson Named CEO of Fidelity Investments
October 14th, 2014
Fidelity Investments is getting its first new chief executive since the Carter administration. In a memo to employees, the nation’s second-largest fund manager said Monday that it named Abigail Johnson, its 52-year-old president, to the additional post of CEO. ...
AMF warns of the dangers of forex market trading for individual investors
October 13th, 2014
The AMF, France’s financial markets regulator, has begun an online publicity campaign to increase public awareness of the risks of trading in the forex market, following the growing number of complaints from investors and many advertisements for investors to trade ...
Italy on Sale to Chinese Investors as Recession Bites
October 13th, 2014
Clotilde Narzisi and Luca Soliman have run the Caffe Orefici, 200 feet from Milan’s iconic Duomo Cathedral, for 10 years. Forced to sell their business because of high taxes, they say their only hope now is to leave it ...
I.M.F. warns of Global Financial Risk
October 13th, 2014
Policy makers at a meeting of the International Monetary Fund said that high debt in China and a lack of spending in Europe, among other factors, could provoke a market convulsion. A more immediate concern drew the attention of ...
Financial Education for Entrepreneurs: How to get it right?
October 10th, 2014
Financial education needs a coordinated and integrated approach and to be taught as early as possible. More and better synergies among all players in the financial environment – but not only- are needed, but it is also important to ...
Central Bank of Ireland warning on Unauthorised Investment Firm
October 10th, 2014
The Central Bank of Ireland published the name of an unauthorised investment firm/investment business firm, namely GEN Equities (Ireland and Switzerland). GEN Equities (Ireland and Switzerland) is not authorised by the Central Bank as an investment firm, an investment business ...
