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Medcraft sticks up for asset managers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Imposing new banking regulations on asset managers would be like "creating a square peg for a round hole," according to ASIC and International Oraganization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) chair Greg Medcraft. Speaking in his capacity as the head ...

ANZ SMSF head moves to Zurich

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... marketing and dealership services teams. Prior to her role at ANZ, Seales worked in senior management roles at National Australia Bank (NAB), including general manager of advice services where she oversaw a large team of wealth specialists. Zurich Insurance ...

John Waller retires from NAB, BNZ

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
John Waller will retire as a National Australia Bank board member and as chairman of Bank of New Zealand and be replaced by Doug McKay. Waller has been an NAB non-executive director and chairman of its subsidiary BNZ since 2008 and will leave those ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... wealthy." Markets are happy because the imagined spooks of last week turned out to be just that...imagined. There was no Greek bank holiday, no capital controls, no limits on ATM withdrawals. No prizes for guessing, but Greece takes the prize, leading ...

Frydenberg outlines tax changes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Following the Government passing numerous tax reforms through Parliament on June 18, Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has said the changes will "[increase] Australia's economic competitiveness while restoring the budget." Specifically, the Tax and ...

Plus ca change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... give-away or is this a give-away? The ECB blinks... again. It seems too long ago now but when Cyprus was the member suffering a bank run back in 2013, the ECB threatened to cut withdraw ELA funding to the Cypriots if they didn't comply with EU and IMF ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... members. Of these, 19 belong to the Eurozone, a common currency region whose monetary policy falls under the European Central Bank (ECB) but whose fiscal policy mostly depends on the individual countries. It is no surprise then that fund managers never ...

FEATURE: The infrastructure love story

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... infrastructure 20th out of 144 countries. Some of the poorest scores were for the quality of Australia's roads and ports. The World Bank's Logistics Performance Index 2014 ranked Australia's trade and transport infrastructure 16th in the world. The Australian ...

Market set for a steady start

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... Greece's future in the eurozone, though Shanghai plunged more than six per cent on tight liquidity. The yen edged down after the Bank of Japan held off on any new stimulus measures at its latest policy meeting despite flatlining inflation, and Tokyo ...

Animal spirits may be playing with fire

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... other influences may offer a more unbiased company position. This is one the key findings among research from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) released yesterday. Among nine investment papers in the RBA's quarterly bulletin, several themes were addressed. ...