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Climate induced GFC a 'very real' risk: Hewson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... think, will next year move towards an agreement on carbon reductions, emission reductions and so on, and [the Australian government] will be playing catch-up. It's almost a siege mentality in the Abbott cabinet these days on the issue of climate change ...

ASX tees up $65m Yieldbroker deal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... for trading over 800 Australian and New Zealand debt securities and interest rate derivatives, including Australian government and semi-government bonds, treasury notes, corporate bonds, floating rate notes, New Zealand government bonds, interest rate ...

Expand PLS to all age pensioners: TAI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... cover home extensions or defer land taxes plus in the US 26 States have similar schemes as well, so the Australian government's position as a financial services provider is not unique, noted the TAI paper. "When [the] administrative efficiency [of Centrelink] ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... Assistant Governor (Economic) from 1996 to 2001, prior to his appointment as Deputy Governor" in December 2001. (Australian Government, The Treasury). For starters, GG does not subscribe to tale of China crashing and burning. "Growth in China has remained ...

Australian Ethical launches country's first ethical bond fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... Australian Ethical chief investment officer David Macri said. The strategy currently has a 41% allocation to Australian Government bonds, 35% in corporate bonds that meet ethical screen, 18% in State Government bonds from Victoria, SA, NT and ACT and ...

Financial services export industry must rival iron ore

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... in Australia," he said. The income generated by these assets would steadily increase tax revenue for the Australian Government. The FSC used the conference as a platform to launch new research by Deloitte Access Economics which shows the government would ...

FSC Conference: Industry urged to prepare for Asia Passport pilot

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... competition from similarly crafted ASEAN and Chinese schemes, as well as the dominant UCITS structure, the Australian government is working to achieve commonality between the schemes so that they might one day be combined. Lo says there is a lack of ...

ASIC announces National Financial Literacy Strategy

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... tools and resources to help them make their financial decisions," ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft said. The Australian Government Financial Literacy Board chairman Paul Clitheroe said being good with money can improve our lives. "Educating the next generation ...

Australian students get top marks for financial literacy

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... management at school. The release of PISA coincides with ASIC's release of an independent evaluation of the Australian Government's Helping Our Kids Understand Finances (HOKUF), now known as ASIC's MoneySmart Teaching program. The evaluation showed ASIC's ...

Federal Court judgements contradictory on adviser liability

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
The Federal Court has issued two separate and contradictory judgements that cast a doubt over financial advisers' proportionate liability when facing client legal claims. Within less than one month, the Full Court of the Federal Court has judged the ...