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CBA chairman defends compensation program at AGM

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... its reaction to the financial planning scandals in front of shareholders at the annual general meeting in Melbourne yesterday. "We know that saying sorry is not enough, and that action is required, and where we've not already made good, we are absolutely ...

Retail MySuper transition too slow: ISA

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... defaults funds. "The superannuation market is sorely lacking in competition," FSC director of policy Andrew Bragg said yesterday in a statement. "It is untenable for union officials and employer organisations to use their positions as directors of industry ...

Shanghai-HK Connect connects China to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
hanghai and Hong Kong's equity markets stood out yesterday. The Shanghai composite index surged by 2.3% and the Hang Seng index gained more than 0.8% despite renewed anxiety over a China slowdown ignited by price data showing that consumer price inflation ...

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... picture... it engaged in price discounting. As per Bloomberg, "State-owned producer Saudi Arabian Oil Co., or Saudi Aramco, yesterday lowered the premium for Arab Light relative to U.S. Gulf Coast by 45 cents a barrel to the least since December". Which ...

Asteron ends business relations with 134 rogue advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... identified 134 advisers last year that actively eroded significant amounts of value out of our business," Hawke told advisers yesterday at a Sydney roadshow. The advisers were "rewriting business in large chunks for their own financial gain," Hawke told ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... up its target SELIC rate nine times from 7.25% in April 2013 to 11.0% in April this year, where it remained... until yesterday, that is. For yesterday, the CBB tighten some more - lifting the SELIC rate by 25 basis points to 11.25%. With inflation expectations ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... falling one per cent overnight, opened higher but the major banks opened slightly weaker. "The banks did quite well yesterday and were up by six per cent this month, so, in the grand scheme of things we are seeing just a modest pullback this morning," ...

ANZ halts trading after accidental data release

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
ANZ requested a trading halt yesterday after it accidently published key financial tables on its website, ahead of the announcement of the group's 2014 financial results. The Excel document inadvertently contained details of unaudited half on half percentage ...

OneVue confirms Eureka Report deal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... groups who have provided ongoing input to the design of OneVue's digital direct offering." The recently listed company yesterday halted trading after news of the deal broke in the Australian Financial Review. The article reported that the new product ...

Cbus sacks alleged leaker, plans governance review

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... chief executive David Atkin. Appearing at a hearing for the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption yesterday, Atkin said the employee Lisa Zanatta's employment had been 'terminated'. Atkin also told the Royal Commission that he would ...