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Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... GDP by more than 2 per cent by 2018 above the trajectory implied by policies in place at the time of the St Petersburg Summit in 2013". The full list of promises here. And for a bit of domestic flavour, the Australian dollar's still holding below US$0.90. ...

ANZ Swiss partnership attracts $1bn from private clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... and they bring a custom basket of international equities to our discretionary account," Phillips said at the Bloomberg Summit. Phillips expressed concern that between 10 to 15% of private client's assets managed by ANZ are sitting in cash. "There is ...

Magellan sees "real tensions" in launching ASX-listed fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... putting that on an exchange which has its own disclosure regime and requirements," Cairns said, speaking at the Bloomberg Summit yesterday. "That is not easy at all," he admitted, and added that "this is a problem that we see here, in the [United] States ...

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 ...