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Industry needs unified solution to insurance "failure": ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... response to ensure that this unacceptable level of failure is addressed," Kell told the Senate Economics Committee hearing yesterday. He noted that "unless they can come up with a collective solution that addresses some problems there will be more enforcement ...

Active management offers little value: Towers Watson

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... to Towers Watson global head of investment Chris Ford. Speaking at the 2014 Towers Watson Ideas Exchange in Melbourne yesterday, Ford said that institutional investors should reconsider the mandate structure and place more emphasis on capital allocation. ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... and volatility is nearly half (16.27 this morning on the VIX) of what it was exactly two weeks ago (31.06). Not even yesterday's news that growth in the world's number 2 economy eased to 7.3% in the third quarter from 7.5% in the second -- which by the ...

Van Eyk goes into liquidation

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... the business in Australia. "We are still negotiating and we will update the creditors," the spokesperson explained. Yesterday, Lonsec said it was " extremely interested in acquiring the iRate technology and its clients." iRate is van Eyk's research solution ...

CBA 'open-minded' about Bitcoin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... is open-minded about the controversial digital currency. "I was interested to see us criticised I think, somewhere, yesterday, that banks were oblivious to Bitcoin and I was thinking: that's interesting, because our entire board and our entire management ...

ISA proposes new restrictions on retail super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... delivered median returns to members. Whiteley made these two proposals in an address to the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday. Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden also spoke at the event, arguing that ISA's proposed ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... economy needs to get it going. If still not enough, there's still the un-taper and re-reflate, I mused about on this space yesterday. San Francisco Fed pres John Williams' singing the same song I sang, humming to Reuters that, "If we really get a sustained ...

AFA announces new directors

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 12 OCT 2014
The AFA approved a new board of directors during the annual general meeting yesterday and announced that current AFA national president Michael Nowak will hand over to former AFA treasurer Deborah Kent. Kent will hold the role of AFA president for two ...

FSC-ISA battle recommences over MySuper data

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... retail and industry superannuation sectors. The Financial Services Council (FSC) claimed that the figures, released yesterday by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), showed retail funds' MySuper products has outperformed industry funds ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... strategist Michael McCarthy said the market could repeat its Wednesday performance, starr sharply lower and end higher. "Yesterday, we saw an extraordinary u-turn in trading. After dropping 50 points we rallied back 90," he said. "So, the question for ...