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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... Council head John Brogden delivers a speech to the Australian Business Economists conference, and Workplace Gender Equality Agency director Helen Conway is to speak at an Australian British Chamber of Commerce lunch, all in Sydney. The CEDA workplace ...

SEC imposes US$4.16bn in penalties

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... mine data sources, which expanded the SEC's ability to target misconduct, and increased coordination with those inside the agency as well as the SEC's law enforcement and regulatory partners."

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... than wealthy sheikhdoms". The last time I ranted about oil was when financial markets picked up the International Energy Agency's (IEA) prediction of increased supply and reduced demand for the commodity. That was on 15 October when Brent oil prices ...

In-housing creating consultant uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... under advice has slowed from a five year annual rate of 11.9% to 3.7%. Some institutions, like the Future Fund Management Agency and New Zealand Super Fund, have no on-going consultant relationship and instead do the research themselves. Despite this ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... to small negative. Oil prices are dropping and are expected to keep on going down, down should the International Energy Agency's latest prediction comes to fruition. My database shows that no matter which measure of the slimy stuff you're tracking oil ...

Scale drove CalPERS hedge fund move

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... Government Super Scheme, Club Super and the United Technologies Corporation Retirement Plan. The Future Fund Management Agency allocation to hedge funds is meanwhile 14% of the funds it outsources to external investment managers. Rainmaker noted that ...

YBR's cash fund receives new ratings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... Money Investments has received two ratings for its Smarter Money Active Cash Fund. Australia Ratings, a new credit rating agency founded by former Standard & Poor's Managing director Chris Dalton, has given the fund an A rating. Dalton said this means ...

US insurance agency fined US$200,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... Australian regulators, in the US the aptly named Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just ordered an insurance agency to pay US$200,000 for orchestrating illegal referrals. The CFPB is a federal consumer bureau that consolidates most federal ...

Ratings downgrade to trigger hybrid sell-off

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... investments, which have already seen recent falls, even lower, according to fixed income specialists FIIG Securities. The ratings agency said it will downgrade the securities within weeks. Prices on the several of the largest hybrids on the ASX have ...

Global investors call for action on climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... example, while current investments in clean energy alone are approximately $250 billion per year, the International Energy Agency has estimated that limiting the increase in global temperature to two degrees Celsius above pre- industrial levels requires ...