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FEATURE: Where next for risk advice?

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... added the IAP should only be available on "advised business", not "general advice, either through direct sales or other agency sales or through group life policies inside superannuation funds." For reference, this proposed remuneration system is substantially ...

Volcker Alliance proposes new US regulator system

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... Financial Regulatory System, Long Delayed, Now Crucial" they have called for the establishment of a new Prudential Supervisory Agency that would centralise the regulatory functions of the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... and Rio Tinto was down 32 cents at $54.98. The credit ratings of BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto are set to be cut by ratings agency Standard and Poor's after the steady plunge in iron ore prices. Fortescue Metals firmed four cents to $1.815 as it said it ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... 21.53 (0.44 per cent) to 4,871.76. US oil prices finished the week below $US45 a barrel after the International Energy Agency warned that rising US crude inventories were approaching the limits of storage capacity amid the global oversupply. The euro ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... play Fortescue Metals was particularly weak, down nine cents, or 3.9 per cent, to $2.20 after news overnight that ratings agency Standards and Poor will review its $US2.5 billion ($A3.2 billion) debt refinancing program. BHP Billiton had lost 44 cents ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... blame for the fall in the 19-country eurozone, already beset by weak economic growth and high unemployment, the EU's data agency Eurostat said. The euro weakened to $US1.1296 from $US1.1317 late in New York on Thursday. HONG KONG - Asian stock markets ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... cent) to 4,634.38. Investors were reassured by a healthy 5.3 per cent rise in US oil prices as the International Energy Agency declared there were signs "the tide will turn" in the battered oil market following recent multi-year lows. Mace Blicksilver ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... to $33.46. Elsewhere in the financial sector, insurer QBE was off 32 cents at $10.45 after the insurance industry rating agency AM Best lifted its outlook for the company. On Wall street on Thursday, stocks fell for a fifth straight day following disappointing ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... to US$57.81 (off 44.6% and 41.3% this year to date, respectively). This followed reports that the International Energy Agency's (IEA) cut its global oil demand forecast for next year. There may be more pain in store if Suhail Al-Mazrouei's - the UAE's ...

MTAA Super awards $200m global credit mandate

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... investment-grade credits and takes opportunistic positions in convertible securities, the sovereign debt of developed nations, agency bonds, asset-backed securities and high-yield and emerging-market debt, where permitted by client guidelines. It fits ...