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Goldman Sachs fined $120m for rate rigging

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
Goldman Sachs will pay a $120 million penalty for attempting to rig global benchmarks for interest rate products. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission found that, between January 2007 and March 2012, traders in New York - including the head of ...

Metro property markets continue reliable income

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
Property fund manager Centuria says Australian metropolitan markets will continue to deliver both reliable income and capital returns in 2017. Centuria Metropolitan REIT (CMA) trust manager Nicholas Blake told Financial Standard that several underlying ...

Garcia to exit AIST

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
Tom Garcia is resigning as AIST chief executive to take up a role with Australia's largest superannuation fund. As of mid-March 2017, Garcia will lead AustralianSuper's product innovation strategy as head of product. Garcia said he enjoyed his four ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
Australia employment There's good news and bad news in the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on the country's labour market. The unemployment rate increased to 5.7% in November, the highest rate since August this year and was more ...

Suncorp appoints Microsoft exec

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
A senior Microsoft Australia executive will lead Suncorp's strategic innovation from March 2017. Taking on the newly-created position of chief executive officer - strategic innovation, Microsoft Australia managing director Pip Marlow will join the Suncorp ...

Standard Life appoints Aberdeen exec

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
A former Aberdeen senior executive will lead Standard Life Investment's investment team in the New Year. Archie Struthers will join the global manager as head of investments on 9 January, taking over from current head of investment process Bill Lambert. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
Australia business confidence "While outcomes in the survey are not pointing to a severe slowdown in economic activity, the results have softened enough to suggest that growth remains sub-trend." (Alan Oster) This is a fair assessment from NAB's group ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
Australia trade balance It makes a nice sequel to the horror 0.5% contraction in Australia's third quarter GDP growth, a widening of the country's trade deficit, that is. Australia's trade deficit rose by 21.3% to A$1.54 billion in October from A$1.27 ...

Hedge funds lack confidence in data security

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
The latest report from KPMG and the Alternative Investment Management Association shows 60% of hedge fund managers lack confidence in the ability of government bodies to safeguard fund data and information once it leaves their firm. The report - compiling ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
US JOLTS report The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) showed that job openings in America fell by 97K to 5.53 million in October (in line with expectations) from 5.63 million in the previous month (upwardly revised from 5.49 million), taking ...