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Fed's about to go... or not?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... as announced in June, and it is maintaining its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities." "The Committee will closely monitor incoming ...

Legal challenges face default super inquiry

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... take regulated superannuation products and apply an extra layer of commercial assessments administered by a Government agency. One example of the commercial attributes laid out includes an assessment on whether the investment objective of a fund and ...

Double A USA - the scare that wasn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... warned on 7 August 2011 that, "THE Australian sharemarket is expected to suffer another horror day tomorrow after rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded the US's credit rating and issued a scathing critique of Washington's ability to deal with its ...

MySuper outside government scope

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... together. Also on the panel was Productivity Commission representative Mike Woods, who said that the independent government agency was conscious that the superannuation system was experiencing a great deal of change, taking this into account in its draft ...

ESG sheds light on Sov debt crisis: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... region, in an interview with BBC Radio, as fears grow that Spain will need a full international bailout. On Monday ratings agency Moody's lowered the outlook for the German economy to "negative" from "stable" - along with a similar move for the Netherlands ...

Wen's visible hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... the real good news. It was the state of the economy past. The real good news is what's Wen says he wants now. Xinhua New Agency reported Premier Wen Jiabao declaring that the government "must do everything possible" to create jobs by "encouraging growth ...

Wins and losses in PC default super report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... selection decision. Options three having massive workload and moral hazard implications, not to mention it injects a government agency directly into a consumer choice process, makes it untenable regardless that is one of the options favoured by the PC. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... 0.01 per cent, to 1,314.99. The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite lost 13.70 points, or 0.48 per cent, to 2,831.02. In Europe, agency Fitch Ratings cut Spain's credit rating by three notches to just above junk bond status. In local trading, gold major Newcrest ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... are not too many areas that have escaped a trimming." The local market opened lower after China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported China's government did not plan to introduce stimulus measures on the same scale as it did in 2008. BHP Billiton fell ...

Eurozone turmoil sparks 'flight-to-quality'

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... is causing a "flight-to-quality", according to Robert Mead, PIMCO's head of portfolio management in Australia. Ratings agency Moody's said it had maintained France's top rating but kept the outlook at 'Negative', noting that while new president Hollande ...