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Noonan heads AIST policy committee

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has appointed Gerard Noonan as chair of the AIST Policy Committee. Noonan - the current chair of Media Super - replaces Sandy Grant, who was recently appointed to the panel of the Cooper Review into ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... fell 117.8 points, or 3.01 per cent, to 3793. NEW YORK - US stocks ended mixed on Tuesday as the Federal Reserve policy committee met to grapple with economic and financial concerns dogging the economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 16.10 points ...

Restrict 'adviser' term: AFA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... reasonable and a further three per cent may have been reasonable. The AFA recently announced the association's policy committee to work with the government and ASIC.

AFA unveils policy committee

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... Director of Alexis Compliance & Risk Solutions Pty Ltd (Alexis), as a strategic partner to the AFA's Government and Policy Committee.

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... US doing the heavy lifting. The minutes of the Bank of England's (BoE) February meeting - where the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted 8-1 to cut interest rates to an all-time low of 1 per cent - revealed that the MPC gave the BoE Governor the green ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... also confirms the deep anxiety gripping not only the BoE, but also the Chancellor of the Exchequer. BoE Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member David Blanchflower have voiced out these concerns. While acknowledging that recent policy initiatives made ...

Unilever Super seeks super provider

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... individuals, with equal representation from the company and members. One direct result of this would be that the policy committee would be free of direct responsibility for risk management, legal issues and compliance. This in turn will allow them to ...

New chair for ASFA

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... strategic leadership." Ian Silk, chief executive of AustralianSuper, has been re-elected to the Chair of the Policy Committee, which comprises all Board members and sets the strategic advocacy and policy direction for ASFA. The Board also re-elected ...

Lower, higher, steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... call for higher interest rates, the Bank of England (BoE) lies stuck in between. Minutes of the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee meeting in August showed that while the bank voted to keep policy unchanged at 5 percent, one member wanted higher rates and ...

Watching the US$ and commodities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
... a technical recession. In the UK, financial markets will be interested in the minutes of the August Monetary Policy Committee meeting of the Bank of England for clues on future interest rate direction. While markets expect the minutes to contain discussion ...