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Goldman Sachs fined $120m for rate rigging

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
Goldman Sachs will pay a $120 million penalty for attempting to rig global benchmarks for interest rate products. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission found that, between January 2007 and March 2012, traders in New York - including the head of ...

Metro property markets continue reliable income

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
Property fund manager Centuria says Australian metropolitan markets will continue to deliver both reliable income and capital returns in 2017. Centuria Metropolitan REIT (CMA) trust manager Nicholas Blake told Financial Standard that several underlying ...

CSC contributes to global ESG think tank

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
... dialogue and sustainable corporate growth between asset owners and managers. Among the draft statement was a call to align interest between asset owners and asset managers, whereby a managers' fee structure should optimally be linked to long-term financial ...

mFund to expand product offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
ASIC is in the final stages of making a greater range of managed investment products available via the mFund Settlement Service. Until now retail investors could only apply for and redeem interests in simple managed investment schemes with a shorter ...

Top 10 investment stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... aiming to keep costs low and refocus the fund's investment efforts. The industry super fund closed its Australian Fixed Interest, International Fixed Interest and International Shares (Hedged) investment options on 28 January 2016. The two fixed interest ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... month's 26 reading. Japan monetary policy decision As was widely expected, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept its benchmark interest rates unchanged minus 0.1% at its 20 December meeting. The Japanese central bank also maintained its yield target for 10-year ...

Top 10 financial planning stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
1. No bachelor's degree for existing advisers In April the Federal Government announced existing advisers will not be required to complete a bachelor's degree and will be given a longer time frame to meet new education standards. Government Minister ...

Landmark ESG recommendations for Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
For the first time in its 10-year history, the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment is publishing several ESG recommendations specifically targeted at Australian fiduciaries. The document, Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century ...

Trump to boost Aussie commodities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... particularly if the global economy continues to grow very slowly." The outcome of the US election also had an impact on the interest in emerging markets, with the sector performing well for much of 2016, particularly in regards to both equity and fixed ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... an imperative for the government to do the Keynesian thing and spend. It's time to crowd-in private investment (while interest rates remain relatively low). We only have to look at the goodwill and raised growth expectations engendered by President-elect ...