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Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

ISA and FSC prepare for Federal Court clash

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... MySuper funds to be listed on modern awards. While the Federal Court named two official respondents - the FWC and ISA - the surprise is that ISA, not the Fair Work Commission, is listed as the first respondent. In the FSC's solicitor's affidavit only ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
Were you not as surprised as I was? I bet you weren't Virginia, not even your uncle and his dog, when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced that it was doing nothing - it left the official cash rate steady at 2.5%. While the RBA mostly stuck ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
No surprise, no surprise. Another month... another US$10 billion off the Fed's asset shopping budget and more stressing that interest rates would remain low for a "considerable" time. You, I and Irene very much expected the Federal Open Market Committee's ...

FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
With the deadline now closed for submissions to the Financial System Inquiry, the first investigation into the sector in 16 years, Financial Standard investigates the big themes, the surprises and what has been missed amongst the more than 250 publicly ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... performance we've had for many a day," Mr Heffernan said. Heffernan said the overseas interest in David Jones had come as a surprise and the positive vibe had spilled over to other retail stocks. In the retail sector, Myer was 11.5 cents, or five per ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
Apart from last-minute end-of-month and end-of-quarter window dressings, this first day of the trading week should offer few surprises. It'll be a week when financial markets play the waiting game. Investors' attention would be on what the Reserve Bank ...

Industry funds spend millions on advertising

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... advertise at all. One critic suggested that industry funds were "dipping into members' accounts". Another reader expressed surprise that industry funds could raise that sort of money when their member administration fees were so low. But it does appear ...

Get set for FICAP's 'Who wants to be a RockStar' tonight

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... from ANZ returning to defend his crown. We also have some great new talent set to blow us away on the night, plus some surprise performances. It's shaping up to be a sensational night." The performers on the night: Representing FICAP's platinum sponsors ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
What's she done now? All this commotion... and just at her first ever meeting chairing the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The S&P 500 index fell by as much as 1.2% and yields on 10-year US Treasuries spiked by as much as 12 basis points overnight ...