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Financial services leading Australian M&A

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
... there is also growing interest in Australia's agribusiness sector, with many reaping the benefits already of recently effected FTA's - beef exports to Japan have experienced an 86% increase, and horticulture exports to Korea are also up - making these ...

Financial services to be a greater part of "economic narrative"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... has strong financial ambition but less experience. "That's why we need to take advantage of the gains in the China-Australia FTA, like for example the opening up of the Chinese market for compulsory third party motor vehicle insurance, in a country with ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... crisis. In China, the government is taking steps to open the economy to foreign investors. Its historic Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Australia will boost economic relations between the two countries and the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect will link ...

China FTA gives Australia "first mover advantage"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
The China Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will give Australian financial services companies a competitive edge that their peers in the United States or Japan don't have. Speaking in front of the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Treaties ...

Australia unprepared for FTAs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The Australian financial services industry is unprepared for a "bonanza" arising from free trade agreements with China, Japan and South Korea, according to Finsia research. Multiple factors including rapid market growth (between 2.5% and 7% over the ...

Mining exports finally give way to financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... out, the Government is finally getting behind financial services exports and will invest $6 billion in free trade agreements (FTA) in Asia. "If we could lift our service exports like higher education, tourism, health care and financial services, to just ...

India mutual funds reach A$149bn

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
The government's announcement of a free trade agreement (FTA) with India that Prime Minister Tony Abbott proposes to conclude over the next 12 months will focus the attention of Australian money managers on India's AUD$149 billion mutual funds market. ...

Industry seizes China FTA opportunities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
The financial services industry has been quick off the mark following the signing of a free trade agreement (FTA) between Australia and China yesterday, with many Australian institutions already announcing their own deals with Chinese businesses and ...

G20, FTA and Vlad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... with China (got to give the host country something). The details are still sketchy but according to "Business Spectator', "FTA to see 85% of all Australian exports enter China tariff-free, worth $18bn over a decade". "Finance, tourism and health" and ...

UK to tax platform rebates as income

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
In a shock decision, the UK taxation authority has issued a ruling that declares some platform rebates to be de facto income on which investors will have to pay tax. The ruling has caused outrage among the UK wealth management community that has claimed ...