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MAFTA provides new Asian opportunities

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... Agreement) under which a previous 30% ownership cap was negotiated. "I congratulate Trade Minister Craig Emerson and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for successfully negotiating this important agreement," said Insurance Australia Group's ...

US retains World Bank leadership

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... is currently president of Dartmouth College, co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH) and a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organisation (WHO). He also has a raft of other credentials including receipt of the MacArthur ...

NAB Asset Servicing wins APRC mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... reporting obligations directed by the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997 which is administered by the Department of Finance and Deregulation."

Fears Volcker Rule will hit sovereign bond trading

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... by government. It was passed into law in 2010 after being co-sponsored by several US regulators including the US Department of Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission. ...

DHS to takeover early super release on compassionate grounds

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... shake-up of the early release of superannuation benefits on specified compassionate grounds. From next month, the Department of Human Services (DHS) will take over the administration of the payments from Medicare/DHS, who have carried out the process ...

US adviser fiduciary rule stalls

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
Concerns that the US Department of Labor's new definition of fiduciary duty for financial advisers is too demanding has prompted the retirement savings regulator to re-initiate industry discussions, a process that some believe may take up to two years. ...

QIC eyes Asian mandates through new ambassador

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... Ambassador to China, Geoff Raby, to help win more mandates from Asian institutional investors. Raby retired from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade earlier this month after five years as Ambassador to China, during which time he had helped QIC ...

ASIC jobs cut as responsibilities rise

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... the next three years, depending on the outcome of the ASIC Funding Review being conducted with Treasury and the Department of Finance and Deregulation. At the same time ASICs regulatory duties have increased as it now patrols the Australian Stock Exchange ...

Boing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... four-week moving average was 424,750, a decrease of 3,000 from the previous week's revised average of 427,750." (Department of Labour) Sure it's still above the 400K mark that's widely-accepted as the number that'll signal that the US economy would start ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... http://www.centerforfinancialstability.org/research/Greece_062411.pdf There's another paper I read - which seemed more viable- written by Yannis Varoufakis of the Department of Economics at the Univerisity of Athens and Stuart Holland of the Department ...