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Taylor rules the RBA just right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... from falling commodity prices and weak global growth. Besides, other central banks - big and small - are already doin' it, let's have what they're having and join the currency war. But the rationales for the "no cut" camp are equally as rational. A cut ...

APRA-ABS super surveys to commence Jan 2016

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has written to super fund RSEs advising them that enhanced data reporting by super funds to facilitate the data needs of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will commence in January 2016. APRA ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
Australians all, let us rejoice for exactly on the day we celebrated our national day, the A-dollar dropped to US$0.7855 - its lowest level since July 2009 - bringing it closer to the US$0.75 mark that would make RBA Governor Glenn Stevens a happy little ...

ASIC national exam proposal lacks evidence: CMCRC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... its objective of ensuring financial markets are 'fair and efficient.' "They haven't defined the terms 'fair and efficient' let alone identified operational measures of them. Further, they haven't systematically estimated these measures pre- and post-market ...

So sure it's certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
It's a done deal! No more ifs, ors, ands and buts. You can bet the house on it - including all its contents (breathing or otherwise) - that four days from now, on 22 January, you, I and Irene would hear the European Central Bank (ECB) announce two letters ...

Nearly there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... lower than that. Then again what's wrong with that? Gentle readers already know my views on this. But don't take it from moi, let's call in the greater minds. IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard argues that the decline in oil would prove to be a "shot ...

Fossil fuel divestment gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
The fossil fuel divestment push is gathering pace, this time with 295 faculty members of Stanford University in the US writing to its board of trustees asking them to divest its $25 billion endowment fund from the investment sector. The Stanford University ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... oil prices, tripled with major central bank easing, would serve the Australian economy and its equity market in good stead. Let the games begin.

Government repeals Palmer FoFA changes

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014
... clients can opt-out of financial products or of their relationship with the adviser at any time. The document will also need to let the client know about the 14-day cooling-off period for financial products. "Today's finalisation of the grandfathering ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... Think the oil price shock of the 70's and 80s and the high inflation and recession that followed. While we're reminiscing, let's recall the scares of more recent times, as in... just this year. There were plenty. The emerging market rout and the slide ...