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Expect more regulation on 'too-big-to-fail': Hockey

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... to have additional protections in case they fail, Treasurer Joe Hockey said at the G20 meeting of Finance ministers in Cairns this weekend. Hockey said that the Financial Stability Board (FSB) is expected to release a proposal for additional international ...

Magellan sees "real tensions" in launching ASX-listed fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... is considering launching a global open-ended fund listed to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), but chairman Brett Cairns has expressed concerns about the process. "There are some real tensions between those who manage money, and have some intellectual ...

Hockey names infrastructure top priority for G20

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... mobilisation of private capital to fund infrastructure is his first priority ahead of the G20 meeting which kicks off today in Cairns. Speaking at the Bloomberg Sydney Summit this morning, Hockey said the G20 nations are agreed that structural reform ...

AFA awards finalists announced

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... The winners of the three awards will be announced on Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at the AFA national adviser conference in Cairns.

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... special. We also profile ME Bank CEO Jamie McPhee and cover this year's Financial Services Counctil (FSC) conference in Cairns. You can read these articles on your iPad by downloading Financial Standard iPadA(C) app free from the App store, for a limited ...

More data leads to more bad decisions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... That was the message of evolutionary biologist Rebecca Costa's speech that closed the Financial Services Conference in Cairns. "Ninety per cent of the data we use to make decisions is unstructured, and to me unstructured means unusable," she said. The ...

Super tax in firing line

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... the Australian economy," Caton said. The senior financial services executive made the comments at a breakfast event in Cairns marking the closing day of the Financial Services Council (FSC)'s annual conference. Caton's comments echo those of Mercer senior ...

FSC Industry Excellence Award winners announced

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014

FSC Conference: Industry urged to prepare for Asia Passport pilot

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... of the scheme is to be guaranteed. That was the consensus of an expert panel gathered at the FSC's annual conference in Cairns. The panel included Liz Gray, a partner at global law firm K&L Gates with extensive experience in managing financial services ...

FSC Conference: Experts forecast FSI outcomes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... outlined his expectation at the opening session of the Financial Services Council (FSC)'s three day annual conference in Cairns. He was joined in the discussion by Franklin Templeton managing director Maria Wilton and the chief executive for the government ...