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Super board quality compromised over pay rates

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... Chambers Westgarth chief executive John Denton. Speaking as part of a panel at The Economist Bellwether 2013 Australian Forum in Sydney this week, Denton said that despite Australia's superannuation funds being "multi-billion dollar behemoths," the quality ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... economic growth. In his first public address since being replaced by Chris Bowen at The Economist Bellweather 2013 Australian Forum in Sydney, Swan said predictions of economic instability, or even recession, ignore the fact that the transition is happening ...

Australian economy "professionally managed": World Bank

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... to manage its transition away from a focus on mining. Addressing delegates at The Bellweather Series, an annual finance forum in Sydney from The Economist's intelligence unit via link-up from the World Bank's Washington DC headquarters, Basu said Australia's ...

Ready for another take off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... this column's musing that, "that time is not yet". And I had some reinforcements. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Jordan over the weekend, Joseph Stigliz - yes, him, the Nobel prize wining economist - declared that QE is "the only stimulus" ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... Santos WA and NT vice president John Anderson are scheduled to speak at The Australian and Deutsche Bank Business Leaders Forum. Graincorp chief executive Alison Watkins is scheduled to speak at American Chamber of Commerce lunch. No major equities news ...

Government to hold public forums on Super Charter

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
The Federal Minister for Superannuation Bill Shorten has encouraged interested parties to attend a public forum on the future Charter of Superannuation Adequacy and Sustainability. The Gillard government announced its intention to create the Super Charter ...

Mercer tests the water of 'fair capitalism'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... came out of a plenary session entitled 'Fair Capitalism: a Manifesto for Change' at Mercer's Melbourne Global Investment Forum. During the session, 10 proposals aimed at encouraging longer term investment were put to the audience. The audience was then ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... just gotten reinforcements too - and it's from one of the biggest guns in the field. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Jordan over the weekend, Joseph Stigliz - yes, him, the Nobel prize wining economist - declared that QE is "the only stimulus" ...

Local funds ignore US $10.6tr pension market

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... into the overseas pension markets in the US, Europe and Latin America at the annual Financial Standard Sales & Marketing Forum at Sydney's Shangri-La Hotel. He said while financial services (at 9.6% of GDP) contribute more to the Australian economy than ...

MySuper a challenge to fund differentiation: AusSuper

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... AustralianSuper head of Marketing Strategy and Insights Brook Carter said. Speaking at the Financial Standard Sales and Marketing Forum, Carter said that in a post-MySuper scenario, differentiation will lie with the investment management side of superannuation ...