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Taylor rules the RBA just right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... US$, 10.2% versus the yen, 9.8% against sterling, 4.7% versus the euro and 11.9% on a trade weighted basis. It's like what Bruce Lee termed, "the art of fighting without fighting"... the currency war. And then there's the "Taylor Rule" - yes, it's been ...

Asset consultants urged to get savvy on carbon risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... themselves, but as yet very few are taking advantage of this opportunity, according to Impax Asset Management managing director Bruce Jenkyn-Jones. Jenkyn-Jones, whose UK-based fund specialises in low-carbon risk investments, said that we are now at ...

Ridout made honorary Doctor of Business

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... including recent involvement in its annual Women, Management and Work Conference. Macquarie vice-chancellor Professor S. Bruce Dowton said: "In recognising Ms Ridout with this award, we hope that many of the graduates in the conferral ceremony will be ...

NAB CEO rejigs executive team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... banking and wealth solution in product and markets David Gall was appointed group chief risk officer. Gall will replace Bruce Munro, who at 61 years old has decided to leave NAB after 40 years in the banking sector. Thorburn confirmed that the three ...

Alphinity fund gets rating upgrade from Zenith

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... in funds under management and is majority owned by principals and co-portfolio managers Johan Carlberg, Stephane Andre, Bruce Smith and Andrew Martin; experienced team is supported by quantitative analyst Shane Kelly.

All that jazz, all nonsense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... valuations". "Valuations are pretty stretched, and we don't see a lot of revenue growth, which might be negative for the market," Bruce Bittles, chief investment strategist at Milwaukee-based RW Baird & Co., which oversees $110 billion, said in a phone ...

Crowe Horwath to announce buyout proposal

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... Centric Wealth, would also be interested on buying the financial planning and accounting group. At the time, company secretary Bruce Paterson said in a letter to the ASX that "the Crowe Horwath board has not yet had an opportunity to consider the proposal ...

Bennelong CEO Jarrod Brown steps down

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... since 2012. He will be a non-executive chairman, reflecting a change to BFM's leadership structure following the decision of Bruce Loveday, currently BFM's executive chairman, to retire from the Board. "With the retirement of Bruce Loveday, the board ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... Lagarde's prescription but he looks to be applying that other super hero's principle - "the art of fighting without fighting" (Bruce Lee, "Enter the Dragon"). I don't have to explain how lower bond yields the region's highly indebted member countries ...

ATO takes over SME super clearing house

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... they can speak to the ATO about super payments at the same time instead of another department," Minister for Small Business Bruce Billson said. "The super clearing house is a great tool for small businesses, because it cuts down the time and paperwork ...