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Insurance reforms get member support

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
... Kelly O'Dwyer has also publically acknowledged the AFA for its role in the process and has suggested more stringent regulations would have been adopted without the body playing its role. "This process shows us that the AFA has the support of the majority ...

CFSGAM grows investments team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... billion and successfully tendered for water and sewerage business in the Asian region. "With changes to water industry regulations in most Australian states, it is now possible for institutional investors like CFSGAM to invest in regulated water utilities ...

MDAs overhauled by new regulations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
The operation of limited MDAs is to be terminated under new, long-awaited regulatory reforms released by ASIC yesterday. The regulator has made amendments to Regulatory Guide 179, the most significant being the removal of the regulated platform no-action ...

DTCC to cut GTR fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... transparency in derivatives trade reporting, including European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), Dodd-Frank and Asian regulations. DTCC's ability to offer the reduction in fees, which is effective as of 1 October, is as a result of GTR's continued ...

Climate risk underappreciated: BlackRock

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... process, as a necessity. BII believes there is room for climate aware portfolios to outperform the index amid tighter regulations, faster technological changes or more frequent weather events. "We believe climate risk factors have been under-appreciated ...

Vulnerable clients easily manipulated: study

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... light of the study, the University of Sydney Business School's professor Susan Thorp has called for a tightening of regulations to protect 'vulnerable' clients. The major university study was conducted by Thorp, professor Julie Agnew of the College of ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... Barriers, found that reducing the prices of basic food staples by just 10% as a result of tackling cartels and improving regulations that limit competition in food markets, could lift nearly half a million people in Kenya, South Africa and Zambia alone ...

Voters opt to shut down AMP Capital China fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... Management chair Adam Tindall said that "a lot has changed" since the fund's establishment in 2006. "Markets move on, regulations change and subsequently products need to be reviewed and updated. "Over the course of the fund's life, it has traded at ...

Bond investors must relax benchmark constraints

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... correlation between major fixed income markets," said King. King also noted structural changes brought about, in part, by regulations have caused big banks to pull back from their market making roles reducing bond market liquidity. However, not all investors ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... prices, NZ banks have tightened the screws on buyers by decreasing the maximum loan-to-valuation ratios. Industry regulations require buyers to have 30% deposit, a move that first applied to the hot Auckland property but which have been expanded to other ...