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GST increase would deliver $42 billion: FSC

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... services exports, "our tax system will need to promote Australia's competitiveness." "Unlike mining and resources competitor nations, our competitors in services exports, such as Singapore and Hong Kong, have a long head start. The average Asian company ...

Australian market skids on Greece

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... could last. "It could be a long time. We lurch from one near-death experience to the next," Mr Spooner said. Eurozone nations will hold a summit on Tuesday to discuss the referendum result, after the German and French leaders called for a meeting. At ...

BMO to manage ESG for $53bn NZ funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... long-term investment returns. "Company engagement is central to our stewardship of the fund and our commitment to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. The NZ Super Fund has grown significantly in recent years and the additional resource ...

Super industry collectively engages indigenous Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... are committed to improving access and engagement with the indigenous community after a recent summit. According to First Nations Foundation chief executive, Trevor Pearce, Australia's indigenous community is continuing to keenly watch the unfolding of ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... flog a dead horse... but you can still flog the rest of the Eurozone. There's been too much ado about how every member nations and every member nation's central bank had been preparing for and are ready for a Grexit. I'm not so sure. For apart from the ...

Australia lagging in Asia-Pacific financial relationships

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... feature some of the most restrictive regulatory and legal regimes in both commercial banking and insurance compared to OECD nations. The report says this is a contrast with Australia, one of the most open economies in the Asia-Pacific region and with ...

BOJ in (tactical) retreat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... come". Kuroda added that the yen's real effective exchange rate - exchange rate adjusted for inflation and trade with other nations - is back to the levels it was before Lehman Bros' collapse in 2008. To this I say, what the? And why? Wasn't this exactamondo ...

Funds management elite tours Asia to seduce investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... will be important items for discussion on our agenda." Frydenberg said that under the trade agreement with Japan "our nations will allow financial services providers to supply services that, in the past, were restricted to domestic financial institutions." ...

Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... off between heavily indebted Greece and its creditors hung over a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven nations in Germany. Locally on Friday, HIA releases its new home sales and the Reserve Bank releases private sector credit data. In ...

Who's scared of Grexit or lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... declined to be identified, said earlier at the sidelines of the meeting of top financial officials from the Group of Seven nations that started Wednesday in Dresden." But never you mind, 'twas enough for dip buyers (or was it the robots?) to buy the ...