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TAL super fund appoints independent directors

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
TAL Superannuation Limited (TASL) has appointed three new independent directors to its board. The company is responsible for the superannuation business of life insurer TAL and it is operated through the TAL Superannuation and Insurance Fund. Peter ...

Asia Pacific wealth growth outstrips world average

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
The wealth and population of high net worth individuals grew faster in the Asia Pacific region in 2013 than anywhere else in the world, according to the Asia-Pacific Wealth Report 2014 (APWR), published by Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management. The region's ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... overnight, the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 0.59 per cent while the S&P500 and Nasdaq both climbed 0.75 per cent. Solomon Lew's Premier Investments has gained 17 cents to $10.00 after the retail group announced its underlying profit rose 10 per ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... still shaking off the euro debt crisis." (Bloomberg) America knows it. Here's Bloomberg again, "Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, speaking to reporters today in Riverdale, Iowa, said U.S. sanctions are designed to maximise the economic pain on Russia ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... the 12 per cent of Australian clothing chain Country Road it does not own. The move would involve buying businessman Solomon Lew's stake at a premium so he would clear the way for Woolworths to then buy retailer David Jones. David Jones were 16.5 cents ...

Perennial chief executive steps down

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
The chief executive of IOOF-owned fund manager Perennial Investment Partners has stood down after more than a decade with the firm. Lewis Bearman joined Perennial in 2003 and replaced Anthony Patterson as chief executive in May 2012. He is reportedly ...

Flash Boys is 'complete nonsense': CMCRC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
A recent high-profile book criticising high frequency trading (HFT) has been branded 'nonsense' by the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) with the group urging regulators not to respond to the scaremongering. The research body has released ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
In big picture terms, not much happened last week. Yes Virginia, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept policy unchanged - as expected. The European Central Bank (ECB) guided forward but also stayed on the sidelines. US non-farm payrolls added another ...

FBI launches probe into high speed traders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and securities regulators have opened up an examination into whether high frequency trading (HFT) firms are involved in insider trading. According to reports, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... as a "currency manipulator" as it did several times in the past, Bloomberg reports that, "U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew... praised China's announcement to widen the daily trading band... in an e-mailed statement yesterday". China's winning the ...