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Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
Push has now come to shove. Yes Virginia, freshly-released data on the state of inflation and unemployment may have just done it - that is, remove whatever doubts linger that Super Mario's coming back to save the eurozone. The European Central Bank ...

ASIC budget cuts send the wrong message: Greens

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
Cuts to the funding of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) send the wrong message to would-be criminals, Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said. Whish-Wilson spoke after ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft said that ASIC will have to ...

Losing shine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... May's closing stats show that most major equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town finished the month in the green. Movin' on up. The S&P 500 index finished May 2.1% on the up (to a new record high); the Stoxx 600 up 1.9% (to 6-year highs) ...

BT Financial GM to take helm at MetLife

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... record and drive will help MetLife build a strong, differentiated position locally. Stewart takes over the helm from Damien Green, Head of Employee Benefits in Asia, who was interim CEO since February this year. MetLife is the fourth-largest group insurer ...

Invest in UK infrastructure, super funds urged

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
The British government is targeting Australian superannuation funds as potential investors in a raft of new infrastructure projects in the United Kingdom. According to Justine Allan, head of institutional investor relations for government body, UK Trade ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
The Australian share market is set to open higher after Wall Street posted modest gains overnight. The March share price index futures contract is 11 points higher at 5,499. In local economic news on Friday, the Housing Industry Assocation releases ...

FPA and AFA unite: stop commissions on general advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
The two advice bodies have asked for a complete removal of commissions on general advice during their appearance at the Senate hearing about the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA). The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Financial Planning ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
Anything you guys can do, I can do better... If the Fed, BOJ, ECB and PBOC could do it - forward guiding markets that monetary policy would remain easy (easier next month in the case of the ECB) - why couldn't the BOE? Yes it could! By most indications ...

Budget a 'missed opportunity': ISA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... the budget." He also said he was hopeful that federal and state governments would be open to the 'inverted bid model' for green field infrastructure projects proposed by industry super funds. Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen, however, called the infrastructure ...

Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
"War, huh, yeah What is it good for Absolutely nothing." - Edwin Starr Nah Virginia, I'm not referring to the one that's feared to erupt soon after pro-Russian rebels in the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk went ahead with the secession referendum ...