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CalPERS appoints interim CEO

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, where he also served for a time as acting secretary. He was also deputy cabinet secretary to former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and assistant director for legislation at the California Department ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... addition of US$18.0 billion and March's US$28.4 billion increase. Japan leading economic index A glimmer of hope? The Cabinet Office reported that Japan's leading economic index rose to a preliminary reading of 100.5 in April from 99.1 in the previous ...

Japanese consumers a tad more confident

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
Japan's Cabinet Office reported that consumer confidence stood at 42.7 in December. While this is much higher than market expectations for a 42.3 print, it's only a slight improvement from the previous month's 42.6 reading. The overall index is derived ...

BOJ in (tactical) retreat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... forever and eva? Perhaps the BOJ is now more optimistic on the economic outlook. Can't blame it. After all the Cabinet Office just upgraded first quarter GDP growth from an annualised rate of 2.4% to 3.9%. How good is that? Then again, household spending ...

Retirement income committee to launch in June

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... the entire retirement income system and will be chaired by former Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Dr Michael Keating. Other committee members include policy experts Vince Fitzgerald, Bob Officer, Elana Rubin, Andrew Podger ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

NAB and FSC tight-lipped on Hockey meetings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... FSC. The FSC would not respond directly to the question of whether it was appropriate to pay for meetings with members of cabinet, instead providing the more general statement, "It is appropriate that the FSC make political donations." The spokesperson ...

Japan's coming April fools' day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014

Advisers "hopeful" to hear FoFA changes before 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... operating officer Phil Anderson told Financial Standard. Anderson explained that the association does not know if the cabinet has started to look at the amendments to the FoFA legislation. The changes need to be approved by the cabinet and the government ...

Super industry leaders weigh up Rudd's new cabinet

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
Following the announcement of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's new cabinet yesterday, Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Mathias Cormann claimed Rudd was "downgrading" the superannuation portfolio. However, Pauline Vamos, chief executive ...