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Aussie bonds attractive to global investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
The Commonwealth Bank is seeing an increase in global pension funds and central banks attending its events and seeking expertise to better understand the Australian bond market. Addressing the bank's ninth Annual Global Markets Conference in Sydney ...

Fidelity names Australian MD

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2016
... Dublin. Fidelity International currently invests US$272 billion globally for clients ranging from pension funds, central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers and wealth managers, to private individuals. The ...

Professional standards legislation reaches parliament

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2016
... appoint the chair and directors of the independent standards body. The cost of establishing the body will be met by the large banks and AMP. Once the standards body is operational the government has stated it will develop an ongoing industry funding ...

Poll provides fresh defence against Royal Commission

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... The poll, conducted by Galaxy between October 6-9, shows two thirds of Australians don't support a royal commission into banks "when they understand what a Royal Commission involves." The findings turn a recent Research Now poll on its head which showed ...

Livestock finance firm completes bond issue

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
... by securing against the livestock being financed StockCo provides a competitive product that is not currently offered by banks. The company's Australian finishing finance operations have been running since 2014 during which time they have financed over ...

Dunsford explains backpedal at EGM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
... gathered by the LICG. Dunsford reinforced his belief that the LIF holds no benefit to consumers and has been forced by the banks and financial institutions seeking to eliminate competition and "further line their own pockets". "At the moment the LIF ...

New BetaShares fund combats investor bias

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
... BetaShares managing director, Alex Vynokur, said the prevalent bias towards the largest 20 companies, particularly the big four banks, exposes investor portfolios to excessive stock and sector specific risk, leaving investors' under-exposed to the growth ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... my histrionics are about the trillions of dollars, euros, yens, pounds, yuan's and other currencies deployed by central banks to grow economic growth and inflate consumer price inflation. Don't get me started about interest rates and bond yields. From ...

ANZ blames tech and training for bank mishaps

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... raised, ANZ has completed internal reviews and changed processes to ensure better outcomes, though committee member Julia Banks MP accused the bank of only employing a reactive compliance framework, which Elliott rejected. He also rejected Julia's assertion ...

Howard: Bank scrutiny "strange"

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
The scrutiny of Australia's big four banks has been labelled "strange" by former Prime Minister John Howard, who heralded the institutions as one of four pillars that guided Australia through the Global Financial Crisis. Howard was the first plenary ...