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Hockey names infrastructure top priority for G20

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... infrastructure is his first priority ahead of the G20 meeting which kicks off today in Cairns. Speaking at the Bloomberg Sydney Summit this morning, Hockey said the G20 nations are agreed that structural reform is needed to reach their stated target ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... markets, the Nikkei-225 index rose - up 0.5% -- on the first trading day immediately following the weekend's Jackson Hole summit. The Japanese yen weakened by as much as 0.4% against the US dollar the same day - both prompted by Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor ...

Heads up to where Wall Street's heading

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... That promise of almost eternal policy accommodation from the biggest central bankers in attendance at the Jackson Hole summit over the weekend pushed it up there. Certainly gives meaning to that Wall Street mantra, "don't fight the Fed"... more so, if ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... normalise interest rates? It's safe to assume that we could have heard a pin drop had the moderator of this year's Jackson Hole summit posed this question to the biggest and most powerful pooh-bahs - them who decides our economic and financial future ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... appraisal of the US jobs market by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and increased tensions over Ukraine at the Jackson Hole summit of central bankers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 38.27 points (0.22 per cent) to 17,001.22, the S&P 500 shed ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... progresses as traders prepare for a closely watched speech by US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen at the Jackson Hole Summit. "It's been a positive open but I think we may see some caution as the session progresses just mainly due to the event risk ...

Licensees must be more open to social media: AFA

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... according the Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Brad Fox. Speaking on a panel at the AdviserEdge Social Advice Summit on the Gold Coast, Fox said that there needed to be more trust between licensees and advisers. "In some cases there ...

AdviserEdge kicks off with "live build"

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... won the chance to have his social media presence overhauled in real-time as part of the 2014 AdviserEdge Social Advice Summit conference on the Gold Coast. This year's conference is focusing on practical skill building in social media, and over the three ...

Planners unite to create innovation platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... succession. The initiative will be officially launched and available to financial advisers at the AdviserEdge Social Advice Summit on August 17.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... Monetary Policy and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases June housing finance figures. The National Small Business Summit is on in Melbourne. In equities news, News Corp and REA Group post full year results. In Australia, the market on Thursday ...