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Future Fund to release quarterly public reports

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... financial year it will be begin releasing quarterly public reports. The Future Fund was recently criticised by the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics for having amongst the poorest transparency and accountability of any sovereign ...

Bad genes won't hurt insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
... prevent insurers and employers from discriminating against people based on their genetic test results. According to the Washington Post, the US Senate has passed the Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act, preventing insurance providers from forcing ...

CFA takes ethics inhouse

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... ethics workshop began five years ago after the World Bank approached CFA to design a program for the bank's employees in Washington DC. Since then, CFA has developed the program for its members as a refresher to the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... broader All Ordinaries lost 49.7 points, or 0.87 per cent, to 5634.4. NEW YORK - US stocks fell on Tuesday, as news that Washington Mutual Inc expects a large quarterly loss raised the spectre of poor results in the financial sector, while minutes from ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... mark, soothing investors' anxiety about the latest credit market fallout and increasing the allure of riskier assets. WASHINGTON - US consumers cut their spending in February and the labor market continued to weaken, suggesting the pillar that had supported ...

Australia dubbed the educational hub

Kaplan Professional, The Washington Post-owned group that bought Tribeca and Finsia's educational arm last year, has flagged plans to make Australia an "educational hub" in the Asia-Pacific region. While the name Kaplan is little known locally - up ...

Iraqi economic growth to hit 7 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... reserves, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last week. The upbeat assessment is based on a meeting convened in Washington between the IMF and the Iraqi Minister of Finance Jabr Al-Zubaydi, Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) Al-Shabibi ...

We'll cut rates again if we have to: US Fed

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
... prices will continue to skyrocket. Speaking at the Women in Housing and Finance and Exchequer Club Joint Luncheon in Washington last week, Bernanke said, "We stand ready to take substantive additional action as needed to support growth and to provide ...

Billionaire bull run

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007

Sub-prime 20/20 hindsight

... release, Greenspan said he "didn't really get" how the sub-prime lending boom could hurt the economy. In a speech in Washington last week, Greenspan noted, "The behaviour in what we are observing in the last seven weeks is identical in many respects ...