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STAFF WRITERS  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... doing to stay ahead of the curve, what Cbus' referral deal with the FPA means, review how the AFA conference went, assess Senator Sinodinos' first major industry speech and profile star fund manager David Paradice. We also have experts describing what's ...

Unthinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
Shutdown: Day 14 and counting...3 days to go till the US debt hits the ceiling. But wait! There's news just out. Washington, it seems, is gonna kick the can a little farther. It won't be 22 November as reported last week, it'll now be 15 Feb 2014. Reuters ...

Obama says no deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013

Sinodinos aims at "fixing the messes" inherited from Labor

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... new Government "will take responsibility for fixing the messes we have inherited" in the financial services industry. Senator Sinodinos said that he is "working hard" to implement the Coalition's election commitments, which include "sorting out the landmines ...

Obama expected to pick Yellen as US Fed chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... Committee - reinforced by his close association with Obamacare, the Frank-Dodd reforms and the post-GFC auto stimulus. US Senator Charles Schumer, the third-ranking Senate Democrat, predicted today that Yellen would win the race for the role "by a wide ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... end up in default if Obama doesn't negotiate. "That's the path we're on," Boehner said." Filibustering Texas Republican senator and 'talk-a-thoner" Ted Cruz must have slipped something in his drink Saturday evening. And so on, and on, and on we go...until ...

Senate to question ASIC over alleged RBA corruption

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
... failure to act on the alleged corruption within subsidiary companies of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Nationals' senator John Williams, who called for a Senate inquiry into the regulator, told Financial Standard that "there is no doubt that there ...

ASIC, "twin peaks" model faces review

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
... long-running debate around the effectiveness of the current regulatory model for the financial services industry. Nationals Senator John Williams called for a Senate inquiry into the regulator, which received bipartisan support. At the same time, Treasurer ...

Super likely to fall under Treasury

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... specified tomorrow, when the cabinet swears in and the new government releases the portfolio's administrative arrangements. "Senator Sinodinos has extensive experience in the finance and banking sector, the Department of Treasury and Finance, and as ...

Hockey to head Treasury and Cormann Finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013