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Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... confirms that China's economy is slowing as feared. Whatever happened to low inflation giving the Politburo and the PBOC scope to stimulate, I wonder, wonder? At the end of the day, the policy responses of 2011 are instructive. When worse became worst ...

Fraser and Hewson support ANU's right to divest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... voices calling 'foul' only strengthen our resolve and, no doubt, that of ANU. "The ANU council's decision to broaden the scope of companies that they will not invest in beyond tobacco is consistent with the approach of a growing number of investors around ...

AFA questions ASIC life report

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... 2015. The first meeting of the working group will take place on October 27 and Fox said that the rules of engagement and the scope of the issues had already been determined. Fox said that other industry participants should also take note of the report. ...

AMP University Challenge winners revealed

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
A team from Griffith University in Queensland has won the AMP University Challenge, a national financial planning competition for university students who want to find out more about being a financial planner. The event was held in Sydney and attracted ...

LGS rejects coal, tar sands

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... portfolios." Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton will both remain in LGS' investable universe. However, Lambert said that there is scope to lower the acceptable threshold, as it has done with tobacco. The new policy is effective immediately. Lambert said a couple ...

US insurance agency fined US$200,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... protection authority into one place. It was formed by the Obama administration through an Act of Congress following the GFC. Its scope covers consumers and their mortgages, credit cards, or various other financial products and it regularly issues orders ...

Advice associations under conflict of interest on professionalism: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... self-regulation is not an appropriate model for increasing professionalism of the financial services industry, there may be scope for a well-designed system of co-regulation." The regulator's submission was made public along with others advocating for ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... printed below market expectations. But never mind this, China has the determination - the Politburo says 7.5% growth - the scope - benign inflation (2.0%) - and the wherewithal - nearly US$4 trillion in foreign exchange reserves - to do so. Never mind ...

SPAA rejects compulsory annuitisation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... "mandating retirement income products in full, part or for certain stages of retirement." SPAA acknowledged that there is scope for further development of the retirement phase of superannuation. It said that "improving the quality and provision of financial ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... expectations and well below the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) target of 3.5%. This would give the Chinese central bank plenty of scope to ease monetary policy if necessary to achieve Premier Li Keqiang's 7.5% economic growth target. Not that the economy ...