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Bowen draws red line on default fund choice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
The Labor Party is ready to support most of the government's proposed measures outlined in the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) response, but changes to default fund choice are a red line. "There has to be a filter to protect the interests of those who ...

Quantitative easing eases bank lending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... for the Starlight Children's Foundation, was the pinnacle of a year-long training program in which the private equity and water investment expert clocked up hundreds of kilometres in the pool and the ocean. "The professionalism around the two-year preparation ...

Mercer appoints independent director

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... telecommunications, information technology, financial services and utilities. She is currently chairman of Yarra Valley Water and a director of State Trustees Limited, the Transport Accident Commission and YMCA Victoria. She was previously group general ...

Data doesn't justify "recession" headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... we get a recession back then? The transmission of monetary policy finally transmitting? Businesses finally drinking the water RBA gov Glenn led them? This positive report is consistent with the AiG Performance of Manufacturing Index which increased to ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... these abnormal conditions could have severe consequences. It's just as well that NASA Mars has discovered evidence of liquid water on Mars and according to NASA's thinking, "where there is water there might be life". Just think of all the products and ...

Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... will draw the process out over many years in a bid to protect against a bond market rout. "It'll probably be like a frog in water where you gradually turn up the heat. They'll boil us slowly," he said. We're just starting to feel the effects of quantitative ...

Super board governance legislation introduced today

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
... represent the most significant shake up of universal super since 1992," Whiteley said. "Incredibly, these proposed laws water down governance requirements for the banks, despite customers losing millions of dollars in numerous cases of financial mismanagement ...

Vision Super joins cost cutting frenzy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... brought down member fees by cutting operating costs by 42% and investment costs by 25%. The fund for local government and water authority employees has said that further reductions are achievable. So far, cost cuts mean that members with an account balance ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
After finishing school in 1979 and before I started university I worked for three months as a kitchen hand in the New Zealand tourist resort of Milford Sound. On my half days off each week I would sometimes join one of the launch cruises that would ...