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David Murray to head financial system inquiry

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... provide a framework for the evolution of Australia's financial services industry into a major services exporter in the 21st Century. "As one of Australia's major growth industries, financial services must be able to deliver more for all Australians and ...

Under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... excuses". "The boats will be stopped. The budget will be on track for a believable surplus. And the roads of the 21st century will finally be well under way." Through this all, I wondered why Abbott didn't include ditching - no, not the witch (Kevin ...

Zurich fund now on major platforms

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013
... increase their weighting to international equities", he said. The international equities strategy is managed by American Century Investments, which identifies high quality companies and trades at what it calls 'inflection points'. Meggitt said the fund ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
... or more than one per cent, while Rio Tinto was down 81 cents, more than 1.3 per cent, at $59.05. But media giant 21st Century Fox bucked the trend, with its shares climbing 29.5 cents to $35.12 after the company reported a boost in profit, but warned ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
... news, BHP chief executive Andrew Mackenzie is slated to speak at a Asia Society Australia lunch, in Melbourne, and 21st Century Fox (formerly News Corp) posts full year results in the US. In Australia, the market on Tuesday close lower with the Reserve ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... the volume of exports over the coming decade. He acknowledged that success in what the government has dubbed the 'Asian Century' cannot rely on unfettered growth in China to support the mining sector but Australia, following 22 years of uninterrupted ...

ISN welcomes new National Infrastructure Plan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... set of actions to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the growth of the Asian economies over the next half century." New actions will include the creation of a national infrastructure fund; selling or leasing of publicly owned infrastructure ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... 1.1 per cent, to $4.70 and the newly separated News Corporation's non-printing entertainment arm, soon to be called 21st Century Fox, which has shot up 76 cents, or 2.5 per cent, to $31.23. The big miners are posting solid losses, however, following ...

Yuan to float free, in our dreams

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013

Govt loses, then wins vote on super legislation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... representation model, with just union and employer representatives on certain boards was no longer appropriate in the 21st Century," Cormann said. "We are disappointed that Bill Shorten and the Labor Party continued to resist our efforts to achieve this ...