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Nikko AM to launch Singapore's first Chinese onshore bond fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
Tyndall Investment Management's parent company Nikko Asset Management will launch the first Chinese onshore bond for retail investors in Singapore in mid-July. The Chinese Onshore Bond Fund is being launched in partnership with the Bank of China and ...

CBA needs to"lift its game": Treasurer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... within its financial planning businesses and the Senate investigation "appallingly." Hockey spoke this weekend at the Liberal Party's federal council, which took place in Melbourne. "I think the bank's got to lift its game," he told journalists, and ...

Future of LISC in Palmer's hands

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... Super chair Catherine Woods, AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk, Mercer managing director David Knox and former NSW Liberal leader Peter Collins. The letter argues: "Australian workers who earn $37,000 per annum or below currently receive a 'rebate' ...

Government plays down support for royal commission

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... of a deeper investigation and made comments aftre reading a 'dissenting report' by the deputy chair of the committee, Liberal Senator David Bushby. "'He did make a very persuasive argument that yet another inquiry might not be the best way forward," ...

Ripoll labels Cormann's FoFA changes "a stunt"

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
"What a stunt" was Labor MP Bernie Ripoll's first reaction to the government's announcement that it will ban commissions on general advice. "Commissions have already been banned. By Labor," Ripoll said on Twitter. "Liberals say they will ban commissions ...

Parliament passes temporary tax levy

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... $180,000, from 45 per cent to 47 per cent from July 1. It aims to collect an extra $3.2 billion over three years. Rebel Liberal senators Ian Macdonald and Cory Bernardi, who opposed the measure, were not required to take a formal position because the ...

Power sell off approved by NSW govt

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... surrounding the sell-off, including protection for workers within the power sector. The 49% sale was approved by cabinet after Liberal and Nationals party room meetings today. NSW currently has four state-owned energy corporations that distribute electricity ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Govt needs six votes to pass pension changes

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... will also reportedly need four more votes to pass its Medicare $7 co-charge policy. Currently it has the support of the Liberal Democratic Party and Family First. It is understood that Labor will support the 2% deficit levy on people with incomes above ...

Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
"War, huh, yeah What is it good for Absolutely nothing." - Edwin Starr Nah Virginia, I'm not referring to the one that's feared to erupt soon after pro-Russian rebels in the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk went ahead with the secession referendum ...