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Australian stock market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... and banking sectors. Markets were also tracking the latest developments surrounding Greece's standoff with the European Union in debt talks, as well as comments out of the Group of Seven summit in Germany. The CAC 40 in Paris lost 1.28 per cent to 4,857.66 ...

Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... CMC market analyst Jasper Lawler. Officials in Athens said Thursday they hoped to conclude a deal with Greece's European Union-International Monetary Fund creditors by Sunday to unlock the final 7.2 billion euros ($7.8 billion) of bailout loan money ...

Fight profit shifting, ACTU tells industry funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
Union appointed industry super fund trustees should use their board influence to treat profit shifting by multi-national companies as a corporate governance issue and also promote infrastructure investment, delegates at the 2015 ACTU Congress were told ...

Groups call for default super fund decoupling

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... movement to apply its standards of financial planning in the superannuation sector. Recently the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption announced it was seeking submissions to answer why laws denying employees a choice of superannuation ...

Smart beta here to stay, research confirms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Smart beta is present in over half of the world's portfolios, with professional investors increasingly combining multiple smart beta strategies, new global research found. The FTSE Russell Smart Beta: 2015 Global Survey Findings from Asset Owners survey ...

FSC backs Commission on choice of super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
The Financial Services Council (FSC) is backing the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption to remove laws that deny employees a choice of superannuation fund. FSC chief executive, Sally Loane, said super must be decoupled from the ...

Royal Commission looks at choice of super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
The Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption is seeking submissions to answer why laws denying employees a choice of superannuation fund should not be repealed. In its latest discussion paper, Options for Law Reform, the Commission ...

Cbus faces serious industry problems with super payments

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... payment obligations. The recent review was commissioned by the industry super fund following issues raised in the Trade Union Royal Commission (TURC) concerning a breach of privacy provisions by Cbus staff. Professor Graeme Samuel and Robert Van Woerkom ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... it with the rest of the world, Saxo bank chief economist Steen Jakobsen said: "the global market is closer to the Soviet Union in 1989 in its political and economic structure than to a freely traded market. The inability to move money from paper into ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... offshore demand. As the trade accounts show, exports to the US fell by 8% year-on-year in March, by 19% to the European Union and by 25% to Japan. And why? It's the yuan, that's why. It's pegged to the surging US dollar. Back in March last year, the ...