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FEATURE: Australia's other love affair

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... are no lingual barriers, levels of transparency are usually the same and both markets have a relatively low level of corruption. "There are a select few vehicles we've promoted to Australian superannuation schemes," Evans continues, "and they range from ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... Asia macro strategist Kay Van-Petersen said. He added that the key is taking out 15 to 20% of "bureaucratic red tape, corruption and dams that have clogged the river that is India." "Such a move would unleash a huge flow of economic growth and prosperity," ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... distorted (by the timing of the Lunar New Year) or manipulated into the truth (as President Xi goes all out on his anti-corruption campaign) or for whatever reason but boyoboyoboy, PM Li wouldn't like it. It's looking like even his lowered 7.0% growth ...

ESG becoming essential to insto alternative investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... "cluster bombs, landmines, depleted uranium, and chemical and biological weapons" by MSCI), corporate board quality, corruption and accounting practices. Investors' interest in (and motivations for considering) ESG criteria went beyond ethical concerns ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... the country prevents it from doing so. Brazil's economic outlook is bogged down by increased political uncertainty (corruption scandal) - despite President Dilma Rousseff's winning the October 2014 run-off elections for a second presidential term - falling ...

Assistant Treasurer Sinodinos resigns

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014
... said in a statement on Friday. He had stood aside from the role to give evidence in NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiries. "I am confident that when the reports are finally released, I will not be subject to any finding of corrupt conduct ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... market to all MySuper products. In this cause, industry fund Cbus's recent woes in the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption and Governance - in which two Cbus employees were accused of perjury - will only strengthen the FSC's (and the government's) ...

Royal commission must look at 'full picture': TWUSUPER CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... TWUSUPER chief executive Paul Sayer has questioned the motivation of the Royal Commission into Union Governance and Corruption, urging the commissioner to take a balanced view in his initial findings, which are due out on Monday. Just over a month into ...

Cbus delivered last blow before RC interim report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... executive Maria Butera's conduct have again been criticised by the Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption and Governance, following the improper leaking of member data and allegations of perjury. Responding to a submission ...

Cbus executive denies perjury allegation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... distribution Maria Butera has denied she committed perjury at the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption, contradicting claims made by Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission, Jeremy Stoljar SC. In his submission Stoljar said Butera ...