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Are super funds the new shadow banks?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
Superannuation funds are increasingly behaving like shadow banks and should be regulated as such, an economist and pension expert from the UK has warned. Dr Bernard Casey of Warwick University said stricter global capital requirements are seeing new ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following a strong performance on Wall Street where the Dow Jones Industrial Average bolted to a new record. At 0812 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was up 10 points at ...

AXA IM appoints Asia Pacific head

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... of registered funds to 36 across the two markets. In December 2013, Aidan Yao joined AXA IM as senior emerging Asia economist and Jim Veneau became head of fixed income Asia. Mark Tinker transferred from London to Hong Kong in September 2013 to be head ...

BetaShares appoints AFR columnist as chief economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... fund (ETF) provider BetaShares has appointed economics commentator David Bassanese to the newly-created role of chief economist. Bassanese spent several years in the financial markets as a senior economist and interest rate strategist at Bankers Trust ...

All that jazz, all nonsense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... increase its benchmark rate in the third quarter of 2015, rather than the first three months of 2016, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius wrote in a report yesterday." (Bloomberg) JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. are reportedly ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... the latest surge in equity prices that last week lifted the Dow above 17,000 for the first time. Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said in a television interview he was "very uncomfortable" with current stock prices, while Raymond James managing ...

Governor Glenn lets his jaw drop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens was in Tasmania letting it all rip at the same time that most of us were co-celebrating Dow 17K with our American brethrens on 'Independence Day' eve. On 3 July, Governor Glenn spoke before 'The ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after both the Dow Jones and the S& P 500 reached record highs for the second session in a row, buoyed by good jobs figures. At 0645 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... time in six months that factory activity in the country has bounced into expansion territory and... as HSBC chief China economist Qu Hongbin notes: "This month's improvement is consistent with data suggesting that the authorities' mini-stimulus are filtering ...

2014 MAX Award Winners and Finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014