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From oil at US$300 to oil at US$30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
And an oil, oil here, oil, oil there, everywhere an oil, oil. It had been on a slippery slope since prices peaked in the dying days of June this year, but 'twas only last week when the headlines splattered oil all over our faces and onto market consciousness. ...

Cap market efficiency plummets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Reinforcing why the government initiated the Financial System Inquiry, economic research by Industry Super Australia has revealed that the financial services sector is becoming less efficient at raising capital. The cause of the problem, according to ...

Government delays SuperStream deadline

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
The government has pushed back the deadline at which super funds must comply with SuperStream to 1 July 2015. The SuperStream regime is due to commence on 1 July 2014, at which time employers with more than 20 employees will be able to start making ...

MySuper dashboards, ASIC warns trustees

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
Following a regulatory review of MySuper product dashboards, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued extra guidance to superannuation trustees about how they need to be handled. The guidance update focuses on how the dashboards ...

'Choice' dashboard, portfolio disclosure delayed to 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
The government has announced that the start date for the product dashboard for 'choice' super funds and introduction of the portfolio holdings disclosure regime will be delayed 12 months to July 2015. Rollout of the MySuper product dashboard is unaffected ...

Compliance absorbs half of platforms' development budget

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
Platforms are spending almost half of their development budget on regulatory compliance, the Investment Trends 2013 Platform Report found. The research covered 454 key characteristics of 13 platform providers and found that spending on developing new ...

Bloomberg acquires well-known UBS indices

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... towards independent indexing and greater transparency in global fixed income benchmarks," head of Bloomberg Indexes Srikant Dash said. "This acquisition provides true independence to an index family used extensively by institutional investors and asset ...

CMCRC launches regulator tool to test market "fairness"

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) has launched a tool for reviewing the impact of market design changes in capital markets, in a bid to defend against knee-jerk regulatory responses to crises. The Market Quality Dashboard enables ...

Consumers find super 'mind-boggling', survey shows

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
Consumers view superannuation as "risky", "complex", "mind-boggling" and "stressful", according to a new consumer survey commissioned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The purpose of the survey, conducted by Latitude Insights ...

Government agnostic on portfolio holdings disclosure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013
The government has given little away about its preferences regarding the depth and rigour of portfolio holdings disclosure, following Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos' release of a discussion paper on this subject last week. Part of the Stronger ...