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APRA: Investment world still clouded with uncertainty

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... authorised deposit taking institutions (ADI) here are now "much better positioned to cope with a loss of access to global funding for a period" than they were in 2008. The second challenge for ADIs according to Laker, is coming to terms with "life in ...

Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... Unemployment appearing frozen solid on 14 million - 23 times the number in Australia - forced the president's hand. Funding for the program won't be directly through new borrowings however but through tax cuts, infrastructure spending and direct aid ...

Towers Watson grows team after benefiting from super mergers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... alternative investment that clients have been hungry for in recent months is specialist credit as traditional sources of funding for private equity funds and infrastructure projects dry up. "Many of our clients have perceived opportunities to take advantage ...

ASIC jobs cut as responsibilities rise

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... revenues from fees and charges alone of $550 million, which goes to Government revenue, and it depends on Government funding for its budget. Bird said if ASIC was funded by its own industry levies, like the UK's Financial Services Authority, it would ...

Deposits may shield Aussie banks from Greek debt crisis fallout

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
The Greek debt crisis is increasing the cost of funding for Australia's Big Four banks, but credit market experts say rising deposit rates are counteracting the threat. As the sovereign debt crisis in Europe continues to drag on with a 12 billion Euro ...

AvSuper awards hedge fund mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... strategies. Michelle Griffiths, chief executive of Canberra-based AvSuper, said the $50 million mandates are part of the funding for the super fund's defensive alternatives portfolio. Fauchier Partners will have $25 million invested in its absolute return ...

Former planner pushes for cruelty free super

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... Ethical Money launched the super fund in a bid to cater for those Australians who do not want their super used as funding for issues they may be ethically opposed to, such as animal testing, factory farming and the live animal trade. While Cruelty Free ...

Planes, trains & automobiles and the bush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... at near 10 per cent - and was only effective in widening America's budget deficit. Whether Obama ultimately finds funding for his shovels or not, the prospect of the Democrats losing control of the Senate at the 2 November mid-term elections is real. ...

Fin centre plans hang in the balance: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... the FSC, the Opposition has announced that, if elected, it would scrap the proposal. "The Coalition has described funding for the centre as 'foreign aid'. When the Coalition boasts of its budget savings, this is where they come from," said Bowen in his ...

More benefits for Military Super

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... age 60 from 1 July 2007. That change was not intended to impact on the superannuation benefits of ADF members and no funding for any such changes was provided at that time. "Benefit payments paid after 1 July 2007 that may have eligibility will be reviewed ...