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FFMA is on track to break $100bn barrier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
The Future Fund Management Agency (FFMA) is on track to break through the $100 billion barrier after having climbed to $97 billion by end March 2013. The FFMA is the public sector agency that looks after the $85 billion Future Fund, as well as $12 billion ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... information on economic and financial developments in coming months. The Committee will continue its purchases of Treasury and agency mortgage-backed securities, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate, until the outlook for the labor market ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... points. NEW YORK - US stocks finished up more than one per cent despite a two-minute mini-crash caused by a false news agency tweet, with good earnings results from DuPont, Travelers and Netflix. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday was up 152.29 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... cent, or 164.22 points, to end at 22,034.56, while Shanghai was flat, edging up 0.35 points to 2,226.13. China's customs agency said Wednesday exports climbed a below-forecast 10.0 per cent last month, and imports jumped a bigger-than-expected 14.1 per ...

ASIC chair appointed to IOSCO

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... Commissions (IOSCO) during a board meeting last week. Medcraft succeeds Masamichi Kono of the Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA) and said it wants to work towards the engagement with members and stakeholders and the cooperation across its membership ...

BNP Paribas expands banking capabilities

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... will become head of Market and Financing Services Products. He will report to Natalie Floate, who is the head of Treasury, Agency Securities Lending and Foreign Exchange for Asia Pacific.

Moody's downgrade drives demand for Aus bonds

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
Demand for Australian bonds has grown stronger after ratings agency Moody's downgraded Britain's credit rating, leaving global investors with one less top-rated economy. Moody's downgraded Britain's credit rating to AA1 from AAA, with Australia now ...

Peer-to-peer portfolio benchmarking gains appeal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... years: now if you want to plan a trip you book everything through a website, but if you need advice you still go to an agency," he said. SelfWealth is a Melbourne-based business that employs six people and was founded last November. Ward previously worked ...

ASIC slaps biggest fine ever

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... Meanwhile, last week Australian Crime Commission executive director David Lacey warned that Australia's criminal intelligence agency was seeing an alarming increase in the number of offshore investment frauds seeking to target self managed super fund ...

CalPERS cry foul play, backs lawsuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... pension fund in the US, CalPERS, has expressed its support for the US government's civil lawsuit against credit rating agency Standard & Poor's Rating Services. Early this month, the US Department of Justice sued the agency for fraud in relation to the ...