Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 11 - 20 of 41 results for "John Williams"

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... measure says, that the official cash rates should be at 1.0%. The two rate cuts camp has it! New York Fed President John Williams revealed that the current fed funds rate, "puts us right at neutral." The same thing Financial Standard published a week ...

Complex operations leaving life customers confused

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
... the field, with record mental health claims for the business last year. In a separate session, Nationals senator John Williams raised concerns over younger people's ignorance about group insurance. Senator Williams pressed AMP chief executive Craig Meller ...

Nationals senator not giving up on life insurance investigation

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
Senator John Williams said regardless of what Parliament ultimately looks like after a hotly-contested election, he will prioritise continuing the Senate Economics References Committee's life insurance industry investigation. Speaking to Financial Standard ...

NZ Super appoints two board members

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has announced the appointment of two new directors to its managerial board and the reappointment of another director. Joining the board is British Columbia Investment Management Corporation founding chief executive ...

FSC defends industry self-regulation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
... news that the issue will now be raised in the Senate's Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry. On March 8, Senator John Williams amended the inquiry to include a scrutiny of the life insurance industry, which will investigate (among other things) "whether ...

Senate to investigate life industry

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2016
... adopting calls to examine the country's life insurance sector. With support from all sides of politics, Senator John Williams has amended the Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry's terms of reference to look at several aspects of the life insurance industry ...

ASIC grilled on whistleblower compensation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). At the latest Senate Economics Committee hearing, Nationals' Senator John Williams asked: "I think our treatment of whistleblowers is disgraceful. I have seen the effects on a couple of whistleblowers I have ...

More calls for Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
Australian Senator John Williams has reiterated calls for a Royal Commission in to the financial planning industry. Williams told ABC he was not satisfied by IOOF's response last week when the company's managing director Christopher Kelaher was asked ...

Claims of wrongdoing have no basis: IOOF

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... perhaps led to the alleged wrongdoings but Kelaher said any such culture is "alien" to the company. Nationals' Senator John Williams was provided an update of the current research team at IOOF which includes nine individuals, two of which are compliant ...

IOOF execs asked to face Senate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... executive Chris Kelaher and to the business' head of research Peter Hilton, a spokesperson for Nationals' Senator John Williams told Financial Standard. The hearing would fall under the Economics Committee Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry, which ...