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Government "tinkering" tops super industry worries

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... regulation: "Currently, there is a sense that regulators don't really understand the super industry and how it is different from banks, insurance companies etc, with the result that new regulations can be harmful to our business," one respondent said. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... points, or 0.91 per cent, at 5,816.0. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have snapped a two-day losing streak, surging after big US banks cleared Federal Reserve stress tests and the dollar retreated from a 12-year high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... neighbours. The very same reason for the on-going race to the bottom among many - and still counting - other world central banks as they try to export their weak economic and deflationary conditions to Uncle Sam. Well, Bob's your uncle... it's working ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... ensuring market uncertainty. Mr Weston said market expectations the Reserve Bank will cut the interest rate was helping the banks but weak commodities and oil prices are prompting investors to avoid mining and energy stocks. "I think this is all keeping ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... even below Premier Li's new like - growth of 7.0%. Is China about to QE fire with QE of its own? Actions by other central banks may have left it no choice. It's losing the currency war. Much had been reported about the rise and rise of the US dollar ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... Woodside Petroleum had dropped 16 cents to $34.73 but oil and gas explorer Santos was up three cents to $7.36. Among the big banks, Commonwealth Bank was down 24 cents at $90.44, Westpac had fallen 21 cents to $37.46, ANZ was five cents weaker at $35.25 ...

Super governance at centre stage

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... design flaw. A requirement to have a majority of independent directors applies to Australian listed companies as it does to banks and life insurer boards which are subject to APRA's regulation. The $1.9 trillion compulsory super system is the last vestige ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... 1.9%; the S&P 500's down 1.7% -- gives substance to the "beggar-they-neighbour" rant I've been ranting since world central banks started handing out surprise easing policies, one after the other, this year - some even going for a double-dip. The thing ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
The Australian sharemarket is higher buoyed by strength from the major banks and despite weakness in the resources sector. CMC Markets chief analyst strategist Michael McCarthy said the local bourse was bouncing back after Monday's negative momentum ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... (http://www.wsj.com/articles/ecb-faces-struggle-in-sourcing-enough-bonds-for-qe-1424868462) Add the ECB's demand to "Competition for purchases may come from banks requiring bonds to meet regulatory rules, pension funds that need to match their liabilities ...