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Suspended SIV scheme raised $3bn

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... Australia via the Significant Investor Visa (SIV) program, which was temporarily suspended last week. Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection statistics show that $3.255 billion has been invested in complying investments between November ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... Glenn Stevens is slated to deliver a speech at the Australian Financial Review Banking and Wealth Summit in Sydney. Department of Industry and Science chief economist Mark Cully is scheduled to speak at an Australian Business Economists lunch, in Sydney ...

Volcker Alliance proposes new US regulator system

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... system-wide prudential rulemaking. They have also said the Office of Financial Regulation should be removed from the US Department of Treasury and become an independent entity. In its report, the Volcker Alliance said there are still too many regulators ...

Perpetual boosts multi-asset team

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... managing director, head of asset allocation and lead portfolio manager. He has also worked at BT, in the Commonwealth Department of the Treasury and in the Prime Minister's Office. Head of investment markets research Matthew Sherwood, who has worked ...

Retirement income committee to launch in June

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... The CSRI is designed to review the entire retirement income system and will be chaired by former Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Dr Michael Keating. Other committee members include policy experts Vince Fitzgerald, Bob Officer ...

US schools should teach finlit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... local school boards. SIFMA has also been highly critical of federal government initiatives, being overseen by the Department of Labor, to introduce fiduciary obligations on retirement advisers arguing it will result retirement fund members having reduced ...

Out with the old in with the newer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
Uh-oh, what's the matter this time? The US Department of Commerce released bad US economic news overnight and Wall Street's down? What happened to the "bad news is good" mantra? Certainly the Fed's got its eyes on the latest update on what is considered ...

US fiduciary reforms will rock pension funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... advice will rock the retirement fund sector. The proposal for a fiduciary advice standard is being pushed by the US Department of Labor (DOL) in its authority overseeing occupational retirement funds subject to the ERISA legislation. Lisa Bleier, managing ...

Challenger negotiates Care Annuity compromise

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2014
The Department of Social Services (DSS) has backed down from its plan to change the way it assesses current holders of the Challenger Care Annuity. However, Challenger has agreed to redesign the product in line with the new 'user pays' aged care policies ...

Robots will take over white collar jobs first

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... over the tasks of medium and high-skilled workers, rather than jobs that do not require a university education, a Department of Industry paper determined. "The challenges presented by increasing automation are not limited to low-skilled positions," the ...