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Frydenberg splashes $50m to pursue financial services crime

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... financial services. The moves follow Frydenberg's funding boost for the prudential regulator, APRA, earlier this month. The agency was awarded an additional $58.7 million in funding over the next four years, which is designed to swell the number of frontline ...

Aussie funds among the world's largest asset owners

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... big issues," he said. "These include the need to develop stronger leadership, respond effectively to regulation, manage agency issues and improve control over outcomes." Globally, pension funds were the biggest asset owners, taking up 61% of the total ...

Chief economist update: China's slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... policy tools to support banks' credit expansion. Liu Shiyu, head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said his agency encouraged local government-backed funds to help ease pressures created by share-pledge risks. Guo Shuqing, chairman of ...

J.P. Morgan expands derivatives clearing

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
J.P. Morgan has become the first over the counter (OTC) clearing participant to launch an agency clearing service through the ASX for AUD and NZD denominated derivatives. The clearing broker's Australian-domiciled clients will now be able to keep all ...

OPEC is not to blame

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... threats of sanctions on countries importing Iranian oil). In its Oil Market Report for August, the International Energy Agency (IEA) did not attribute rising oil prices to OPEC: "Global supply in August reached a record 100 mb/d as higher output from ...

AAT overrides adviser ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... insurance for vehicles and asset protection. The banning came after ASIC and the Queensland Police collaborated in a joint agency surveillance campaign to identify and remove criminal syndicate and outlaw motorcycle gang members with dishonesty convictions ...

Nikko expands green bond capability

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... mandate for Nikko Asset Management's global green bond strategy now allows it to invest in sovereign, supranational and agency (SSA) green bonds. The strategy is run by a London-based team which oversees an actively managed and diversified portfolio ...

Trustees caught in a balancing act

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... scale are not materialising for members, in the form of lower fees for example, Brandweiner said. Second is the principal-agency risk whereby seven or eight levels of intermediation slowly to erode outcomes for members. This is not done "intentionally ...

Mercer deputy CIO retires

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
... McCulloch is now the head of fund implementation for delegated solutions, Pacific. He joined from the Future Fund Management Agency where he was head of investment operations for the past 11 years. Prior to the Future Fund, McCulloch spent 11 years at ...

Fees for no service remediation passes $250 million

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... these provisions are paid in full, fee for no service remediation may exceed $850 million, ASIC said. The law enforcement agency said it will continue to supervise further reviews for entities subject to the fee for no services project. Fees for no service ...