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Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... expenditure figures. Business investment fell 4.4 per cent in the March quarter, and is expected to fall further in the coming financial year. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 12.2 points, or 0.21 per cent, lower at 5,713.1. The broader All Ordinaries ...

Fight profit shifting, ACTU tells industry funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... Australian super funds. Not-for-profit industry super funds seeking long term debt investments that provide social as well as financial benefits should be actively involved in the sector, delegates were told.

Groups call for default super fund decoupling

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
Corporate super representative group CSSA is calling on the industry funds movement to apply its standards of financial planning in the superannuation sector. Recently the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption announced it was ...

Zurich chairman retires, replacement named

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
The chairman of Zurich Financial Services Australia's general insurance, life and investments business, Terry Paradine, is retiring after seven years in the role. Before being appointed chairman, Paradine was a Zurich board member for four years. He ...

Privatisation backlash derails infra investing

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... social infrastructure PTPs - schools, prisons, hospitals." For the full story, download the 23 February issue of the Financial Standard iPad app here.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... pre-election promises, the eurozone indices appear somewhat reassured by the country's discourse with the region's important financial figures," said analyst Connor Campbell at Spreadex trading firm. Greek voters handed a decisive victory to radical ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... its peak, construction is set to see "a record year," Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake told Financial Standard. Perpetual head of investment market research Matt Sherwood said that "companies exposed to housing and infrastructure ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
This year has been another busy one for the financial servives industry. FoFA remained on the radar and the Financial System Inquiry has the potential to change things in a big way. The Financial Standard team takes a look at the issues that made waves ...

Vertical integration not important anymore: Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
Vertical integration may prove to be a non-issue if both financial product manufacturers and distributors work with the consumers' best interest in mind, Financial System Inquiry (FSI) chairman David Murray said. "The same obligations are on everybody ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
Everything is political and especially so with the super-charged high stakes poker game on display in the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) where the battle lines were quickly drawn between financial product providers versus consumers. And after listening ...