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A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... further upheaval in the financial markets would, for sure and for certain, be eventually met with policy responses from the powers that are.

Super governance changes questioned

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... (APRA). The paper says "it is difficult to identify existing gaps or areas where APRA does not already have significant powers to step in if it identifies an area of concern." Industry Super Australia chief executive, David Whiteley, said the legal advice ...

Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... realms of the recent spike in volatility in the Chinese equity market we've seen over the past few months. Nothing China's powers that are couldn't handle. Even the VIX index - the "fear gauge" - is not perturbed. It rose from 13.74 last Friday to 15.60 ...

Government to review ASIC

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... The review's scope is limited to providing "observations" rather than "recommendations on ASIC's regulatory framework or powers." Its panel currently comprises Productivity Commission commissioner Karen Chester as chair, as well as former Queensland ...

Super board changes could cost funds $20m a year

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... maker and a judge as well as jury," he added. "This is a serious breach of the rule of the law and gives APRA far greater powers than it currently has in other APRA-regulated industries, such as banking and insurance." The AIST said it supports the trustee ...

Singapore looks to Australia on risk reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... needs, suitability of product recommendations and professionalism. The reforms will also give Singapore's regulator further powers to "restrict licensed financial advisers from conducting non-financial advisory activities which conflict with their financial ...

Still in the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... want to get wrong-footed by the regulator again. Or they don't want to get on the regulator's wrong foot. I'm sure China's powers that are know this and so would thread carefully - i.e., unwinding its market manipulating measures ever so slowly - as ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... protection, today's headlines are filled with stories about how the rapid fire of protection measures implemented by China's powers that are over the past few days have failed to stem the "panic", the "mayhem", the "meltdown", the "crash", the "chaos" ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... mechanism (ERM) - and other unifying experiments before that - the euro will be another failed experiment. The European powers that be don't want this - else they wouldn't have thrown bad money after bad money after good money on Greece. The very reason ...

Mocking Maastricht

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... stood at 74.7%. Sure, Germany's budget deficit is now 0.7% of its GDP but it breached the 3.0% limit from 2003-2006. The powers that be (that includes Germany) let it get away with it. Why not Greece? Greek PM Tsipras' op-ed article in 'Le Monde' rings ...