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RBA Gov on Fed lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... but with only a day to go, most are still uncertain of its ramifications - immediate and longer term. Not even the good governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Glenn Stevens, it seems. In his regular end-of-year tete-a-tete with the Australian ...

Local shares lacklustre in 2016

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... indications point to markets being in for more of the same during 2016 as they faced this year. "Recently Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stephens hosed down expectations around how much our local economy will grow. In this environment the focus of investors ...

Four steps up, four steps down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... year. As the chart below shows, that wasn't the only instance... the RBNZ did the same in mid-2010. According to RBNZ Governor Graeme Wheeler, the decision was taken because: "Globally, economic growth is below average and inflation is low, despite highly ...

Super governance saga continues

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... directors on super fund boards. Both ISA and AIST have commissioned a review by former Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor and Treasury Secretary Bernie Fraser to lead the development of a best practice governance code of conduct for not-for-profit ...

Governance bill loses Senators' support

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... later today or later this week. Both ISA and AIST have commissioned a review by former Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor and Treasury Secretary Bernie Fraser to lead the development of a best practice governance code of conduct for not-for-profit ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... concerns over slowing China and slumping commodity prices and slowing global growth and low-flation. As our very own RBA governor Glenn Stevens put it after the Fed's no-lift in September decision, "There will always be one piece of data that says hold ...

California pension giants must divest from coal

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... must divest their positions in coal companies after a new bill was signed into law in California last week. California governor Edmund Brown announced the signing of the bill on his website. The move is in line with his target to generate half of the ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... in 2000, September 11 and the US recession in 2001, and the Great Recession of 2008. Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor said as much when he testified before the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics 08 18 September ...

Yuan stable (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... PBOC assuaged these fears at the meeting and quickly followed up with a statement on its website the following day with governor Zhou Xiaochuan saying that, "there's no basis for long-term depreciation" of the yuan. That statement was immediately followed ...

Failure to monitor ESG may breach fiduciary duty

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
A United States Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for actions against institutions that fail to monitor the effects that climate change has on their portfolios. The Supreme Court held on 18 May 2015 that trustees have a fiduciary duty, emanating ...