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Season's Greetings from Financial Standard

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
December is a time for celebration. It's almost as if there is too much going on - the holidays, summer and New Year's all come at once in a heady maelstrom of activity. Rather than wind down, everything has a sense of speeding up. The same can be said ...

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 ...

Oil slide, CEO pay and that "income recession"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
Oil! Oil! Oil! It's on the slide again! Just when we thought, the price of that black gold has found its footing, fresh news of higher supply and inventories and predictions of lesser demand next year took the floor from under it. While I still maintain ...

Government Cyber Security Strategy already out of date

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
Financial System Inquiry (FSI) chair David Murray has called for government and other financial system stakeholders to tighten processes to counter the growing threat of cyber-crime. Recommendation 38 in the final report of the FSI said the government's ...

Infra committee recommends ISA's inverted bid model

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
Industry Super Australia's inverted bid model for infrastructure project development has moved a step closer to becoming a reality, receiving the endorsement of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications. The ...

'Twilight pool' block trading venue to launch in 2015

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
A new block trading venue for institutional investors is set to launch in the first half of 2015, exclusively for institutional investors trading in blocks of $1 million and above. Developed by BestEx, the new venue will be called Block Event. It positions ...

Investors blind to arbitrage opportunity in emerging market debt

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
Investors can get better yields on BBB investment grade bonds in emerging markets that they can on junk bonds in the developed world but investors' prejudice means most are missing out, according to Loomis Sayles head of emerging markets investments ...

Market wrap PM

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
The share market is weaker as another fall in oil prices hits energy stocks. The Brent price of crude oil has touched a fresh four-and-a-half year low after OPEC nations shied away from cutting production to deal with a global oversupply. "The price ...

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. ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
The share market is lower for a fourth straight day as further falls in iron ore prices drags on the big miners. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said the lower iron ore price was the main culprit behind the market fall, as it had been for last three ...