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Bipartisan Senate inquiry to grill financial services again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... mechanisms that would ensure that financial planners found to have breached any law or professional standards in their employment are transparent, for both the sector and consumers. Financial services providers and companies' response to misconduct in ...

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... would be 5,000 less. The 0.2% contraction in Germany's economy in the second quarter suggests further weakness ahead - employment being a lagging indicator. Then there's Spanish consumer price inflation which fell by 0.5% in the year to August - the ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... structural influences affecting labor market variables, including labor force participation, the extent of part-time employment for economic reasons, and labor market flows, such as the pace of hires and quits. A considerable body of research suggests ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... Wyoming, that while some economic data has improved, there still remains "considerable uncertainty about the level of employment." "Unfortunately, the speech was a disappointment to those who looked for clues about the Fed's policy course in the near ...

CBA sees two top execs step down

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... for personal reasons to London, and therefore not to remain in his current role." Blair will continue in full time employment with CBA and will remain in the group's boards in China, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Blair joined CBA in 2006 as chief ...

Financial services export industry must rival iron ore

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... Australia needs to significantly grow its financial services export industry over the next decade to ensure future employment and economic growth, chairman of the Financial Services Council Greg Cooper said in his opening address to delegates at the ...

Folkestone acquires land for planned community

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... together with its proximity to the Melbourne CBD, access to major freeways and the new Regional Rail Link, and the major employment zones in the western corridor should underpin the demand for our Project over the coming years," Paramor said. The project ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... economy, should it persist, is certain to reduce this "significant underutilization of labor resources" - for we know, employment is a lagging indicator. Tweak, tweak: "The Committee recognizes that inflation persistently below its 2 percent objective ...

Abetz backed FSC in case against FWC, Federal Court reveals

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) had the backing of Employment Minister Eric Abetz in its Federal Court case against the constitution of the Fair Work Commission's superannuation expert panel, it has emerged. On Friday the Federal Court published ...

It's all about the US week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... asset purchases. The Fed would have made its decision presumably after it had taken a sneak peek of that key stat - the employment report - that's scheduled for release after it's made its decision. It can't afford to lose face, to erode its credibility. ...