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Treasury to simplify foreign investment framework

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
The Treasury is now accepting submissions from "interested parties" as to how to "modernise" and strengthen the integrity of Australia's foreign investment framework. This follows Treasurer Joe Hockey's comments in his 2015 Budget speech where he proposed ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... sentiment index plummeted to 88.6 in May from 95.9 in April. Offsetting these data were the pullback in the US dollar and US Treasury yields, Hogan said. Netflix rose 4.5 per cent following reports it is in talks with a Chinese partner backed by Alibaba ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities and of rolling over maturing Treasury securities at auction. This policy, by keeping the Committee's holdings of longer-term securities at sizable levels, should ...

No new taxes on super welcomed

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... transparency in the methodology behind the raising of levies. "AIST will be seeking to consult with the government and treasury to ensure that cost recovery guidelines are applied in raising supervisory levies," he said. The budget papers show the cost ...

Citi builds pension team

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... services team. Stuart Zanchi has held positions at JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and most recently at NSW Treasury Corporation. At Citi, he will manage multi-asset class portfolio transitions, derivative overlays, currency overlays and interim ...

Too many adviser associations: ASFA

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... should be a single adviser association. Noting its "concerns" about multiple associations, ASFA said in a submission to Treasury that the current situation creates "unnecessary duplication" along with the potential for conflicting professional standards. ...

BAM appoints non-executive chair

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... Management has appointed a new non-executive chair to its board. Christine Feldmanis was most recently managing director at Treasury Group Investment Services, and was CFO and senior client services manager at NSW Treasury Corporation before that. "We ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... the S&P 500 in the prior two sessions. Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities, said a drop in US Treasury bond yields also eased worries. "If you look at some of the turmoil you saw in the market during the last few days, a couple ...

NAB appoints new chair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... meeting in December. Henry has been on NAB's board since November 2011. Previously he was Secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury and sat on the RBA board. He has also held (or currently holds) positions at the Council of Financial Regulators, Trans-Tasman ...

Volcker Alliance proposes new US regulator system

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... prudential rulemaking. They have also said the Office of Financial Regulation should be removed from the US Department of Treasury and become an independent entity. In its report, the Volcker Alliance said there are still too many regulators in the US ...