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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... pro-Russian secessionists rattled markets. In the southern city of Odessa, 38 people died in an arson attack against a trade union building after a day of violent clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian militants Locally, in economic news on Monday ...

Legal action on cards as FWC denies FSC requests

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... now using that as a defence on why a hearing cannot occur. "This process does nothing but continue the status quo of the union-backed industry funds' monopoly on the default superannuation market," Brogden said.

PROFILE: Cbus chief executive David Atkin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... aristocracy of muscle.' This academic interest in unionism soon led to a job as a researcher at the Air Traffic Controllers' Union, and then a job at Trades Hall, in a workers' compensation policy role. A couple of other union roles led him to head up ...

Could MySuper free-for-all lead to illegal inducements?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... that if the unions are taken out of the decision-making process, the fact is employees will have no representative [i.e. union] input on who will provide their default super. Atkin said that illegal inducement "does happen, and it's very hard to prove." ...

Westpac to open branch in Shanghai

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
Westpac has received approval to set-up a sub-branch in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ), becoming one of the first foreign banks to take advantage of the pilot program. The FTZ spans 28.78 square kilometres, and grants financial institutions exemptions ...

AMP likely to cut hundreds of Melbourne jobs: FSU

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... itsA Melbourne office, the company's second largest outside of the Sydney head office. AMP has informed the Finance Sector Union that there will be a "substantial reduction" in staff at the Melbourne office. "In our experience, that means that the number ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... - and threatened more but... "We do not need to trigger an actual war with Russia, nobody would want that." The European Union is still deciding what it's gonna decide but Germany is reportedly adamant that this shouldn't include economic sanctions... ...

APRA gets Basel III tick

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... Australia's is the eighth regulatory framework to be graded by the Basel Committee. Others include the United States, the European Union, Japan and Brazil. The Basel Committee said: "Australia's implementation of the Basel capital framework was found ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia, in a vote that was widely condemned in the West, with the US and the European Union vowing to impose sanctions and bolstering fears of a new Cold War. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank ...

HESTA non-committal on Transfield divestment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... has given no commitment to divest from Transfield Services, following calls for it to do so from the Australian Services Union (ASU). The ASU national executive adopted the resolution on Wednesday, on the grounds that ASU members, most of whom are members ...