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Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... slightly up-sloping, FIIG director of education and research Elizabeth Moran added. "The benchmark three-year Australian Commonwealth Government bond rate is 1.90%, over five years is 2.01% and 10 years is 2.41%," she said. The US fixed income story ...

CBA stashes cash for compliance

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
Commonwealth Bank will put aside an additional $350 million in 2019 to cover larger than expected costs for compliance and remediation programs as well as its separation from CommInsure Life. In an update to the ASX on Tuesday evening, CBA said its ...

Women in Super ramps up "Make Super Fair" campaign

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... Sydney last week pulled a record crowd of more than 500 attendees. The guest speaker was Anna Meares, an Olympic and Commonwealth Games gold medallist who also has the coveted title of being the most decorated female track cyclist of all time. The group's ...

Planning firm among healthiest Australian workplaces

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... latest healthiest workplace survey, with a 21-year-old firm recognised as Australia's healthiest small workplace. The Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, planning firm Announcer and Mercer are all award winners in AIA's 2018 Australia's Healthiest ...

CBA investigates possible privacy breach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
Commonwealth Bank confirmed it is undertaking an investigation into a potential privacy breach that may have seen sensitive medical information of CommInsure claimants accessed by employees in other departments of the bank. As reported by the ABC earlier ...

Royal Commission: And that is a wrap

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... deal with the requirements that the Commission has made," Hayne said. Hayne also thanked the staff at Melbourne's Commonwealth law courts and Sydney's family and federal courts, and journalists who reported on the proceedings. "The Commission has not ...

Vertical integration not to blame

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... from providing financial advice and being involved in the manufacture of financial products was not necessary. The Commonwealth Bank echoes this sentiment, saying misconduct examined at the Royal Commission - while occurring in a market where vertical ...

Royal Commission on social media: Executives grilled

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... (@DeniseBrailey) November 21, 2018 Consumer advocate Denise Brailey praised counsel assisting Rowena Orr for revealing the Commonwealth Bank asked former chair David Turner to return 40% of his director's fees. ASIC head Shipton scolded at #BankingRC. ...

ETF issuer hires Olympian

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... 2000 Sydney Olympics and seventh in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He also won the gold medal in triple jump at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. In his most recent role, he headed the sales and business development at Surgicore Australia. Also joining ETF Securities ...

Misconduct matters, but stability key for Frydenberg

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... Treasurer's suggestion comes as the Royal Commission's public hearings draw to a close. This week, executives from the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, Macquarie and ASIC faced the Commission over the actions of their organisations, with topics such ...