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Turnbull backs financial start-ups

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... business. "So we're looking at all of those features but I agree, I've always felt that Australia should be a bigger financial centre than it is. We do have the advantage of being in the same time zone, there is a strong argument - I've always found ...

Investment Manager Regime passes through Parliament

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... through Parliament last night. The legislation was recommended by Mark Johnson in his 2009 review, Australia as a Financial Centre. It is designed to cover a wide range of offshore investor types, similar to regimes in place in the UK and Singapore. ...

ASX celebrates record revenues

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
ASX chairman Rick Holliday-Smith has used his annual general meeting to celebrate what he called the company's "record revenues and earnings", and to urge shareholders to vote in favour of chief executive Elmer Funke Kupper's remuneration package. He ...

Billionaire makers: The cities growing the world's wealthiest

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
New York has topped the list of cities where the most billionaires were born, according to analysis by WealthInsight and Spear's magazine. No Australian cities made the list but major financial centres featured prominently. New York came out top overall ...

La Trobe registers for the Shanghai Free Trade Zone

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... global player in financial markets. Looking towards 2020, we believe that Shanghai will ultimately become a global financial centre following this FT Zone initiative and the Chinese government's approach to more open capital markets is to be applauded," ...

ASX calls for Australia-based exchanges

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... long-term stability. Moreover, having central financial market infrastructure is a pre-condition to be a global financial centre, the ASX said. Location requirements are already in place for most of the systemically important markets that are traded ...

Wealth management sector key to Australian growth: Deloitte

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... at being a global competitor in the business of managing people's money and becoming a more significant global financial centre."

Financial services to make 100,000 millionaires by 2017

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... nation has one of the world's largest groups of investment funds. "Sydney has turned itself into Australia's financial centre and has therefore attracted more millionaires than any other city in Australia (81,400). But cities with undeveloped financial ...

Corporate governance still needs to improve in Asian markets

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Corporate governance is still an issue of concern when investing in Asian markets and while international financial centres such as Singapore or Hong Kong have improved tremendously, there are still problems that need to be tackled. A survey conducted ...

Act soon on Johnson Report: FSC

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... Brogden, chief executive officer, FSC, called for fast action on the Johnson Report into Australia's future as a financial centre. In 2010 The Johnson Report suggested the introduction of an investment manager regime, reform of collective investment ...