Adele Ferguson

Adele Ferguson

Adele Ferguson comments on companies, markets and the economy.


Faux 'craft' beers causing heartburn

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Ruth Williams and Adele Ferguson Some call them faux or 'undercover' craft beers, while Choice uses the term 'craftwashing'.

'Craftwashing': What makes a real craft beer?

Ruth Williams Adele Ferguson They have raised the ire of small craft breweries and attracted attention from the competition regulator.


Competition probe circles beer makers Lion, Carlton & United

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Adele Ferguson and Ruth Williams Brewers of increasingly popular craft beers are battling to get product into pubs, write Adele Ferguson and Ruth Williams.


CBA planning victim losses may escalate

Senator Mark Bishop

Adele Ferguson and Ben Butler The number of victims of the Commonwealth Bank financial planning scandal whose cases have not been properly assessed may balloon into the ''tens of thousands'', the chairman of a Senate inquiry says.

CBA, ASIC slammed over 'sketchy' Senate inquiry submissions

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Adele Ferguson and Ben Butler The senate inquiry into ASIC has slammed the Commonwealth Bank for providing "sketchy" information and failing to keep it and the corporate regulator fully informed.

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FPA pushing for industry overhaul

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Adele Ferguson The Financial Planning Association is set to tell its members, who represent more than half the country's financial planners, the industry needs to lift its game to win back the trust of the public.

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Which bank is on notice after ASIC probe into scandal?

Adele Ferguson CBA could have licences suspended or cancelled if it breaches new ASIC conditions.


CBA told to reopen compensation for advice victims

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Adele Ferguson and Ben Butler Commonwealth Bank has been forced to reopen its compensation process to thousands of victims of shoddy financial advice provided by two of its planning businesses.

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Spanish giant's big Leighton plans

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Adele Ferguson When Leighton Holdings chairman Bob Humphris fronts the construction giant's annual general meeting on Monday it will mark the end of a turbulent era and the beginning of a massive overhaul of the...

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A federal budget where some are more equal than others

Treasurer Joe Hockey

Adele Ferguson Comment: Joe Hockey's chant that everyone must pucker up and ''contribute now'' smacks of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

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FOFA reforms sell retirees short

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Adele Ferguson If the government wants to reign in costs it should design self-funded retiree policies.

ASIC to feel heat over 'star' financial planner

Adele Ferguson Regulator to face Senate inquiry over decision not to investigate financial planner.

Insider's view to CBA financial planning scandal

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Rollo Sherriff and Meridien Wealth: How a rock-solid institution backed impenitent maverick


Adele Ferguson, Mario Christodoulou Almost 100 clients lost tens of millions of dollars due to Rollo Sherriff's advice, write Adele Ferguson and Mario Christodoulou.

Packer and Murdoch close to One.Tel deal

James Packer

Ben Butler, Adele Ferguson James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch could settle a long-running dispute over conduct.


James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch close to One.Tel settlement

James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch in 2012

Ben Butler, Adele Ferguson James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch could settle a long-running dispute over their conduct as directors of dotcom bomb One.Tel as early as next week.

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Potshots at the vertically integrated

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FOFA the political backdrop as ASIC probe takes centre stage

Adele Ferguson Corporate watchdog could see its powers over financial planners and liquidators beefed up.

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Gina Rinehart fufils dream with Roy Hill $7.9 billion funding deal

Adele Ferguson Occasion marks almost 62 years since Hancock found one of the world's biggest iron ore deposits.

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Gina Rinehart savours a win over the naysayers

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Adele Ferguson Gina Rinehart's $7.9 billion financing deal for her Roy Hill mine project is the culmination of a six-decade family ambition and a much-savoured one in the eye for the naysayers.