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Financial stability risks escalate: RBA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2022
... catalyst is that inflation stays high for longer than expected, requiring a larger and more persistent tightening in monetary policy than is currently reflected in financial market pricing. This would exacerbate the risk of a global recession and likely ...

Regulators to face committee scrutiny

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2022
... "The committee will be probing the supervision and enforcement activities of the ACCC, APRA and ASIC, as well as their policy development and governance processes," Mulino said. He said topics that regulators must be across include cost pressures facing ...

Sustainable investment now mainstream: Survey

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2022
... likely to consider climate/carbon a key priority this year, falling from 67% to 41%. Diversity and inclusion (52%), public policy (49%), and labour rights (47%) would also be top priorities for asset owners if the data related to social themes was more ...

First Super: Merger pressure fizzles out

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2022
... sector to mirror the banking sector by consisting of four dominant players. "This is a reversal of the previous government policy for fewer funds that were carried out by the prudential regulator," Watson says. "Accordingly, there was unrelenting pressure ...

Throw out financial services law clutter: ALRC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2022
... Accordingly, there is an urgent need to create a legislative structure that is fit for purpose and that can accommodate future policy initiatives." ALRC president justice Sarah Derrington said the groaning complexity in the law regulating corporations ...

RBA lifts rates, lifts markets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2022
... achieve its goal. Though, it was flagged that further rate hikes will likely be required over the period ahead. On the policy decision, RBA governor Phillip Lowe said: "The cash rate has been increased substantially in a short period of time." "Reflecting ...

Aware Super appoints new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2022
... Ausfilm, The Climate Council ANROWS and The Foundation for Young Australians. She also sits on the board of Mirvac, Centre for Policy Development, and The Goodes O'Loughlin Foundation. In her executive career, Mostyn was a solicitor with Gilbert ...

AXA IM Alts bolsters natural capital platform

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2022
... its director, as well as investment officer Mirova. Meanwhile, Estabridis joins having spent more than 10 years in public policy, working with governments and development institutions including the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research ...

CALI names chief executive

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2022
... joins after eight years at the Australian Banking Association (ABA) where she held various roles, most recently chief of policy and strategy. AIA Australia chief executive and managing director Damien Mu along with TAL group chief executive and managing ...

RBA tipped for another rate rise

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2022
... Fed signalling, we now look for a 50bps tightening from the RBA in October, which would take the cash rate to 2.85% and policy settings into mildly restrictive territory," he said. "The RBA is projected to tighten again in November, but by a more business ...